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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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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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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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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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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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.
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I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
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“I want to help the Dodgers win and fight the battle.”
