"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

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"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."

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"Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time."

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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"Time is a concrete product."

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"Time must be converted into product."

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"The sacred-time determines the due events."

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"Time is thought."

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"Time is life."

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Explore more quotes by Manuel Puig

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

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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."

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"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."

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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."

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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."

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

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"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer."

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"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."

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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."

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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."

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