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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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 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 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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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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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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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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 haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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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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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