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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 felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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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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 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'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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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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'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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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