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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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 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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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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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 felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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'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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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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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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