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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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 would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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 haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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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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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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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