Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment but a way to act.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: peruvian
  • Birth: March 28, 1936

Topics

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Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

Joan Didion

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I am the political psychiatrist to the stars.

Andrew Breitbart

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Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

Amy Chua

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Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Tony Campolo

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According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

Robert Fripp

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We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.

Roger Taylor

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What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

Maryanne Wolf

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When I first met Sam Mendes, I was a bit confused and said to him, 'I'm 50 years old. What am I going to do at 50 in a Bond film?'

Monica Bellucci

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I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

Louis Oosthuizen

LifeGameGolfPlayGoEverything

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

Dick Thornburgh

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I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

Demetri Martin

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I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.

Delroy Lindo

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