18 quotes
Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.
Prosperity or egalitarianism you have to choose. I favor freedom you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
The War at the End of the World (1981)
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.
The Time of the Hero (1963)
He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.
The Time of the Hero (1963)
Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.
Nobel Lecture (2010)
We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them.
The Time of the Hero (1963)
It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.
The Time of the Hero (1963)
When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.
The Time of the Hero (1963)
Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity.
Nobel Lecture (2010)
Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers.
The Time of the Hero (1963)
[C]ommon sense is the most valuable of political virtues.
The Call of the Tribe (2018)
You can't make facts fit the rules, it is the other way round. The rules have to be adopted to fit the facts.
The Time of the Hero (1963)
A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. but it won't help your career.
The Time of the Hero (1963)
[T]here is literally no bastion of knowledge, not even in the exact sciences, that ideology, with its powers of distortion, cannot breach and into which lies useful to the cause cannot be implanted.
The Call of the Tribe (2018)
Good literature erects bridges between different peoples, and by having us enjoy, suffer, or feel surprise, unites us beneath the languages, beliefs, habits, customs, and prejudices that separate us.
Nobel Lecture (2010)
Now we have Peronism that is everything: it's the far right and its the center, it's left centrist and is also extreme leftist, it is democracy and is also terrorism, its demagogy is also insanity...Peronism is everything.