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Manuel Puig

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

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog."

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"Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching."

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"I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband."

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"Beware of giggle grins, they are highly contagious."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan.""

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one of you stick the world's longest finger up my ass. If a prostate check is an exam, that was a motherfucking safari. I was scared to look down. I thought I'd see that guy's finger nail sticking out of my cock."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."

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"God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!"

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Manuel Puig
"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."

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Manuel Puig
"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."

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Manuel Puig
"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."

People

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Manuel Puig
"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."

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Manuel Puig
"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."

Humor

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Manuel Puig
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

Decision-Making

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

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Manuel Puig
"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."

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Manuel Puig
"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 performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."

Reading

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