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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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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Writers are not meant for action.
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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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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 nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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