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"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."
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"The material of life is made from time."
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"It is a high spiritual truth that we create with our judgements."
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"There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when the life you create becomes the help in the lives of countless other humans."
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"We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before."
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"Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over."
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"To learn, we must first listen."
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"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."
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"Life is like a painting. Imagine it, hit and try drawing with the pencil of first steps, fill in the colors of happiness, correct the mistakes with eraser of love and forgiveness; thus, one dream project is accomplished. Create such masterpieces just like that."
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"The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul living in joy and peace."
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"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong."
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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."
Society
"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."
Animals
"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."
Life
"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be."
Creativity
"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."
Creation
"Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."
Equality
"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
Democracy
"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."
Business
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
Expression
"No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing."
Despair
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