#tori

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

— Manuel Puig

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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#had #half #hour #hours #i

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#comic #humor #i #i think #ingredient

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#becomes #copy #deep #england #ever

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#exhausts #his #imitates #men #novels

It's a very good historical book about history. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#about #book #good #historical #very

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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All societies are historical. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#societies

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#even #historical #odyssey #point #side