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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
Manuel Puig
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Manuel Puig
Age: 57 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 28
Died: 1990
Died: July 22
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Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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