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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. ↗

— 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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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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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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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. ↗

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

— Manuel Puig

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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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