Manuel Puig Quotes
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I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet.
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I don't make music to win awards. I learned a long time ago that the biggest pleasure I can have is hearing people sing my songs.
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.
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He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
