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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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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 would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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