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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 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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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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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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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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 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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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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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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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 locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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