If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
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