I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
Mario Vargas LlosaRevolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
Mario Vargas LlosaThere are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.
Mario Vargas LlosaMaintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Mario Vargas LlosaThis fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space.
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