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As a rule, one should never place form over content.

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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 began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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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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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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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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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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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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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