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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful. -- Manuel Puig
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. -- Manuel Puig
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself. -- Manuel Puig
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Your reality, isn't restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you're inside of -- Manuel Puig
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- But you have to reason it out then and convince yourself.
- Yes, but there are reasons of the heart that reason doesn't encompass. -- Manuel Puig
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And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ... It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again. -- Manuel Puig
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Writers are not meant for action. -- Manuel Puig
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. -- Manuel Puig
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. -- Manuel Puig
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I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. -- Manuel Puig
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. -- Manuel Puig
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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've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. -- Manuel Puig
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that. -- Manuel Puig
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. -- Manuel Puig
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. -- Manuel Puig
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you. -- Manuel Puig
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. -- Manuel Puig
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. -- Manuel Puig
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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. -- Manuel Puig
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. -- Manuel Puig
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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy. -- Manuel Puig
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. -- Manuel Puig
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything. -- Manuel Puig
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. -- Manuel Puig
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. -- Manuel Puig
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it. -- Manuel Puig
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- And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive too, if he's got a mind to?
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- But if men acted like women there wouldn't be anymore torturers. -- Manuel Puig
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. -- Manuel Puig
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. -- Manuel Puig
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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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! -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create. -- Manuel Puig
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. -- Manuel Puig
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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator. -- Manuel Puig
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I only understand realism. -- Manuel Puig
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I allow my intuition to lead my path. -- Manuel Puig
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. -- Manuel Puig
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? -- Manuel Puig
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. -- Manuel Puig
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader. -- Manuel Puig
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. -- Manuel Puig
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. -- Manuel Puig
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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. -- Manuel Puig
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As a rule, one should never place form over content. -- Manuel Puig
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. -- Manuel Puig
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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. -- Manuel Puig