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Manuel Puig Quotes

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: argentinian
Birth: December 28, 1932 - July 22, 1990

Topics

Intellectual Fantasy Follow Advantage

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

Nature Myself Evil Succeed Say True

You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.

Family Love Strength Marriage Fight

It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.

Women Children Time Men People

Entrepreneurial education in grades K-12, if it exists at all, still focuses on teaching potential entrepreneurs small business entrepreneurship - the equivalent of 'how to run a lemonade stand.'

Education Business Small Potential

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Wisdom Community Politics Support

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

I Am Detail Looking Real Fiction

I think my books are lighter and funnier than some of the big series out there. You may not walk away from my books having learned a life-altering lesson, but you will feel better for having laughed for a few hours. It's just a different style of writing.

Style Walk Writing Think Better You

President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Appreciation Influence Book Direction

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.

Places London Planet Been Most Ever

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

Dilshad Vadsaria

Parents Roots Credit Know Important

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.

Change Music Doing You Play Rhythm

I loved the seventies.

Diane von Furstenberg

Loved Seventies

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