Manuel Puig Citas

• I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

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  Needs, Stories, Literature

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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

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  Reality, Cells, Study

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• I allow my intuition to lead my path.

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  Intuition, Path, Instinct

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• The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Unhappy

  "Fictional character: Luis Molina". "Kiss of the Spider Woman", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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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.

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  Character, Novelists, Literature

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• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

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  Country, Latin, Usa

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• What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

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  Dream, Synthesis, Nocturnal

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• As a rule, one should never place form over content.

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  Form, Should

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• I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

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  Decision, Literature, Sides

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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.

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  North Wind, America, United States

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• I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

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  Writing, Reality, Literature

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• Para alguien que escribe ficción, para activar la imaginación y el inconsciente, es esencial ser libre.

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  Writing, Order, Imagination

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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.

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  Views, Needs, Literature

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• En un país como Francia, tan antiguo, su historia está llena de personajes destacados, por lo que lleva un gran peso a sus espaldas. ¿Quién podría escribir en francés después de Proust o Flaubert?

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  País, Escritura, Gente

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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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  Positive, People, Stuff

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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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  Party, Views, Hands

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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.

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  Book, Literature, Waste

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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.

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  Believe, Character, Voice

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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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  Stay Strong, New York, Teaching

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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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  Teaching, People, Madness

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• Writers are not meant for action.

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  Acción

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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.

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  Libro, Filosófico, Lectura

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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 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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