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Famous Manuel Puig Quotes
“I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.”
“I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.”
“I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.”
“Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.”
“I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.”
“We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.”
“What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?”
“What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.”
“I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.”
“I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.”
“If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.”
“It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.”
“It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.”
“Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.”
“I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.”
“I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.”