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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.

— Mario Vargas Llosa Nobel Lecture (2010)

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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)

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