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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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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 write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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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Writers are not meant for action.
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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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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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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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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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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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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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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