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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
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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 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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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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