“But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa, book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

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Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist 1936

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