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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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
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I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in introducing another perspective on the news that the American market is in need for.
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When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.
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A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
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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.
