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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

Manuel Puig

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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 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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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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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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 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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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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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 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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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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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