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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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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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 haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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