Manuel Puig Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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'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 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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• It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

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  Hollywood, Matter, Way

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• I only understand realism.

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  Realism

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• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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  Pleasure, Copies

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• Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

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  Men, Giving, Males

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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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  Reality, Hands, Doe

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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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  Intellectual, Novelists, Literature

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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.

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  Writing, Simple, Ukulele

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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.

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  Long, Stories, Literature

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• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

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  Literature, Aspiration, Tropics

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• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

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  Writing, Literature, Fantasy

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• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

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  Writing, Thinking, Literature

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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.

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  Writing, Literature, Film

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• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

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  Selling

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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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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

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• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

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  Hygiene, Literature, Tardiness

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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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• 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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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

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  Book, Literature, Study

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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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• 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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