Manuel Puig Quotes
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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If the Russians still adhered to the Greek Orthodox religion, if they had instituted parliamentary government, and if they had a completely free press which daily vituperated us, then - provided they still had armed forces as powerful as they have now - we should still hate them if they gave us ground for thinking them hostile.
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
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A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
