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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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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. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I only understand realism. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. ↗

— 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 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? ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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Theater has always been most important to my psyche. ↗

— Bill Pullman

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I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

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