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Manuel Puig

"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."

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"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."

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"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
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"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
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"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
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"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
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"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
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"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
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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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"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
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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 always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."

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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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