"My pleasure was to copy, not to create." — Manuel Puig
"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."
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63 Quotes by Manuel Puig
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He,…
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing…
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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend…
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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…
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration…
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a…
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can…
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas.…
— Jensen Ackles
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
— Randy Bachman
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You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
— David Bailey
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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for…
— Roseanne Barr
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
— Venerable Bede
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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this…
— Berenice Abbott
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
— Robert Benchley
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Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
— Irving Berlin
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The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal;…
— William Blake
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