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My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters.

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To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.

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Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

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Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce also artists, musicians, painters, thinkers, and novelists.

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When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.

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Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

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Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history.

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

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

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Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.

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Biography

Nationality: Peruvian

Type: Writer

Born: March 28th, 1936

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