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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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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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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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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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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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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