Yasiel Puig Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
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Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
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It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.
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“I want to help the Dodgers win and fight the battle.”
