Manuel Puig Quotes - Page 2

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• We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

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  Trying, Needs, Use

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• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

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  Literature, Novel, Convince

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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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  Literature, Influence, Great Literary

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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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  Character, Special, Trying

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• I only understand realism.

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  Realism

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• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

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  Translations, Best Sellers, Sellers

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• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

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  Humor, Thinking, Universe

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• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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  Pleasure, Copies

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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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  Occupation, Novel, Great French

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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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  Humor, Thinking, Needs

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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.

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  Believe, Reading, Writing

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• I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

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  Beauty, Theme

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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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  Growing Up, Years, Saws

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• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

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  Ghouls, Film, Exploration

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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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  Two, Space, Giving

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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.

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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Literature

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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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  Objectivity, Narrators, Cameras

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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.

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  Watches, Literature, Taste

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• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

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  Believe, Reality, Analysis

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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.

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  Movie, Needs, Stories

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• It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

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  Novel, Facade, Aesthetic

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• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

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  Dream, Reality, Thinking

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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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  Reality, Cinema, Literature

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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.

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  Believe, Special, Literature

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• One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

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  Reading, Different, Attention

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