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

Other quotes by Manuel Puig

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

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positive
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. – Manuel Puig

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History
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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History

Im a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I dont understand why in America its such a big deal that we wont read the Koran and we wont look at history. – Pat Robertson

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History

There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides. – Philip Howard

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History

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness werent created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. – Camille Paglia

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History

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Its not the work which kills people, its the worry. Its not the revolution that destroys machinery its the friction. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. – Madeleine L’Engle

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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. – Samuel Johnson

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Food