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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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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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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 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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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