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

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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

Zoe Kazan
- Girl
- Very
- Starbucks
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

Owen Arthur
- Help
- Sense
- Bewildering
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

Saint Teresa of Avila
- Soul
- Single
- Heaven
I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

Olga Kurylenko
- Beginning
- Failure
- End
I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

Iggy Pop
- Believe
- Never
- Down
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

B. B. King
- People
- Long
- Society