Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
Tara Reid
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
Samuel Barber
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah Winfrey
Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
Gary Locke
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
Abraham Cowley
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
Ice Cube
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
Oscar Niemeyer
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner
There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
Sam Harris
It's the standard contract. Gives you seven wishes in accordance with the mystic rules of life. Seven Days of the Week, Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Seas, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...
Peter Cook
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
Ed Harris
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.
Katharine Lee Bates
When you do not know of a thing say so plainly.
Umar
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
Mario Vargas Llosa
