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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

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It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

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My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger! ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

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Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest. ↗

— Richard Pryor

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Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure? ↗

— Richard Pryor

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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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