Quotes by Argentinian/Argentina authors (page 1)

"I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting"

"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams"

"I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood"

Manuel Puig, Author

"God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy"

Pope Francis, Pope

"I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be able to be a character in the 30s and there are these actresses that I really liked in the 40s, 50s and 60s in American movies that I've seen since I was a little girl. But you don't really think like that when you prepare for a role"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

"The original is unfaithful to the translation"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"Democracy is an abuse of statistics"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence"

Daniel Barenboim, Musician

"I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"I only understand realism"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I allow my intuition to lead my path"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous"

Manuel Puig, Author

"My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms"

Manuel Puig, Author

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

Manuel Puig, Author

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective"

Manuel Puig, Author

"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry"

Manuel Puig, Author

"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs"

Manuel Puig, Author

"It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade"

Manuel Puig, Author

"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it"

Manuel Puig, Author

"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, Author

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

Manuel Puig, Author

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

Manuel Puig, Author

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you"

Manuel Puig, Author

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Quotes by Argentinian authors