Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I will keep working hard!
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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I'm aware more than I was before I had books published that any review is a bit arbitrary - it's not really, say, 'The New York Times' that's authoritatively weighing in on the quality of a book, though it seems this way to the public.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.
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I just sort of choose to see the good in things, and I choose to - I don't know - look on the bright side, as cheesy as it sounds.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.
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Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.
