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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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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 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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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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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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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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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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I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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 had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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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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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 would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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.
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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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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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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