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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.

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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I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

I am not going to participate in professional politics again.

If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.

Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I...

I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.

I remember, when I was young, to have a literary or artistic vocation was really dramatic because you were so isolated from the common world. You felt that you were marginal, and if you dared to try to organise your...

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.

Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.

I am in favor of economic freedom, but I am not a conservative.

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

What is essential in love is what the French call 'amour fou.' What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn't sound as beautiful. It's a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of...

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

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