Environment Quote by Manuel Puig

“Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.”

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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of…

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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand,…

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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort…

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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more…

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Writers are not meant for action.

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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not…

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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

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