Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

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Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me;...

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me;...

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve...

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the...

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the...

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.