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" Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. "
Manuel Puig
I Am
People
Young
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. "
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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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Days
Old
" What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? "
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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
" One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. "
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Your
Different
" It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. "
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Own
Facade
" My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. "
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Aspiration
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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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Life
Need
" We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. "
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Needs
Power
" 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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" It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. "
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Hollywood
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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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Hands
Party
Political
" Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. "
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Way
He
Environment