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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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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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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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