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Manuel Puig Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Humor Think Need Stories Much

I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'

Door Think Key Enough You Young

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

Life Time Day Past Prison My Life

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

Work Me Baby Looking Horizon Year

I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

Music Country Listen Big Guy Get

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

Research Writing Start Go Out Going

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

Christie Brinkley

Great Art People Person Just Because

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

School New York People You Look Bad

The EarthEcho World Water Monitoring Challenge is an opportunity for anyone, anywhere to make the first step in taking action for clean water and healthy waterways worldwide.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Opportunity Water Challenge Step

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?

Sebastian Junger

Life Hate Golf You Play Office

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

Work Someone Conversation Nice Your

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.

Business Government Democracy Present

As I grew, I learned to love myself more every day and not pay attention to the negative people, which helped a lot.

Love Myself Day People Negative Pay

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