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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
Manuel Puig
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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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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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've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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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 allow my intuition to lead my path.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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