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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 stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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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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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 had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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