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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? – Manuel Puig

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I like the beauty of Faulkners poetry. But I dont like his themes, not at all. – Manuel Puig

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If its great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. Its a positive force. – Manuel Puig

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

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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. – James Buchan

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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. – Anatole France

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History is but the nail on which the picture hangs. – Alexandre Dumas, Catherine Howard

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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. – Louis LAmour

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