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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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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 allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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 stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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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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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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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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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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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'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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