Manuel Puig Quotes
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
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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.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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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.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?