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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.

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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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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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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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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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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