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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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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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 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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