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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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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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 allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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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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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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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 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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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