Manuel Puig Quotes
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
Quotes to Explore
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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It's difficult to always perform well, to always go on the court and win and hit great shots. It takes a lot of time and a long learning process.
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I went to my first school dance on the set of 'Spider-Man.' The funny thing is, it wasn't actually real. I didn't choose my dress or my date or anything about it. I just showed up for work.
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You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.
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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
