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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 allow my intuition to lead my path.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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