My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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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
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
Manuel Puig
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
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For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
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