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Writers are not meant for action.

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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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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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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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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 allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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'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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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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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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
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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 haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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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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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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