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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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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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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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