"We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts."

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Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2013). “Making Waves: Essays 1962-93”, p.150, Faber & Faber

Mario Vargas Llosa

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“An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.”
“When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, Richard, what do you see? I said, I see all types of people. The voice said, But do you see any niggers? I said, No. It said, Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any.”
“Who lives in true poverty - The janitor who is grateful for the chocolate chip pancakes his 6 year old helped his wife prepare for dinner, or The CEO who is ungrateful for the type of wine served with his 5-star meal?”
“I want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.”
“We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that employers that want to cooperate have a system whereby they can verify the employment status of a person that they are seeking to hire. It is part of a comprehensive initiative in which we look both at the border, at the workplace, at criminal aliens, in an attempt to have a comprehensive effort aimed at stopping illegal immigration while at the same time promoting legal immigration according to principles of due process.”
“The prime rule of reality is that we must become in our lives what we choose to experience in the world.”
“I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.”

Source : "Q&A: Michael Peña on End of Watch, Race, Woody Allen". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. September 11, 2012.
“People do not hear our pain when they believe they are at fault.”

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