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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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Manuel Puig
Age: 57 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 28
Died: 1990
Died: July 22
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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 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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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