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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While experiencing painful feeling, he seeks delight in sensual pleasure. For what reason? Because the uninstructed worldling does not know of any escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure. When he seeks delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling lies behind this. He does not understand as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings.
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No revolution can be made with silk gloves.
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The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.
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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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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
