Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa (birth name: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa) (born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer who is one of Latin America's leading novelists and essayists.
5 Quotes
Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
— Mario Vargas Llosa