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Quote by Manuel Puig
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of out

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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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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Humor
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldnt use irony to reduce their power. – Manuel Puig

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

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Hope
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History
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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates

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History
[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. – John Toland

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History

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. – Richard Ellman

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History

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. – Robert Caro

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It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues. – Philip Gibbs

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That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. – Lyman Frank Baum

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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. – Marcus Valerius Martialis

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