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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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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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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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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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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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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 like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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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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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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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'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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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