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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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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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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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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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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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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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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