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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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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 had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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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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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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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