"Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present."

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Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “The Storyteller: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

Mario Vargas Llosa

#Memories Quotes #Simple Quotes #Past Quotes

“Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.”
“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.”
“The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps.”
“I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.”
“When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.”
“The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.”
“Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.”
“There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able to find this perfection in all things. But there is a natural malignity that often discovers a vice in the midst of several virtues, in order to reveal and proclaim the discovery to all the world - a quality that is more the mark of a naturally evil temperament than a superior sense of discrimination. And it is truly an evil lot, to pass one's life always feeding off the imperfections of others.”

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