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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
Reality
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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 felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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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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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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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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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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 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 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 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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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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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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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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