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.
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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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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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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.
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I don't know if my songs fit in films.
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I always like to start with a great pair of shoes. It's your first contact with the ground, and it can really change the way you move and act physically.
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And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.
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A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.
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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.
