The past is a country from which we are all exiles. - Fernando Vallejo

"The past is a country from which we are all exiles."

Fernando Vallejo History

Novelist Colombian Born 1942 (age 84)

More from Fernando Vallejo

"Life is a struggle against forgetting who we are."

"Colombia is a country where people kill each other for ideologies they don't understand."

"The Catholic Church is the greatest fraud in human history."

"Memory is the only immortality we have."

"I've seen a lot of things in my time."

"That's how we archaeologists tell time."

"We must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it."

"Every artifact tells a story."