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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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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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 had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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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 like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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