Quotes by Argentinian authors

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Small: I do believe that reading can help you understand what youre writing and see what others are doing. But someti
"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 information can act as an inhibitor"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the oth
"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a m
"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: Whenever I write, Im always thinking of the reader
"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor
"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they ha
"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: Its essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have cert
"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of informat
"If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: Im not a best-seller, but through translations, Ive accumulated some money
"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: I would very much like to become a best-selling author
"I would very much like to become a best-selling author"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. Theres an objective and a subjective camera, like theres a third- and a f
"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: As a rule, one should never place form over content
"As a rule, one should never place form over content"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious control
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which
"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: Writers are not meant for action
"Writers are not meant for action"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: The translators task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. Th
"The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: My pleasure was to copy, not to create
"My pleasure was to copy, not to create"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: I dont want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that Im suspicious
"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: I dont have traceable literary models because I havent had great literary influences in my life
"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: I believe that people who dont achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful
"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful"
Manuel Puig, Author
Small: The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall
Che Guevara
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall"
Che Guevara, Revolutionary
Small: Silence is argument carried out by other means
Che Guevara
"Silence is argument carried out by other means"
Che Guevara, Revolutionary
Small: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin
Che Guevara
"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes"
Che Guevara, Revolutionary
Small: I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man
Che Guevara
"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man"
Che Guevara, Revolutionary
Small: Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel
Che Guevara
"Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel"
Che Guevara, Revolutionary
Small: There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empir
"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that
"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as
"The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what
"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river it is a
"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: The central problem of novel-writing is causality
"The central problem of novel-writing is causality"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: Reality is not always probable, or likely
"Reality is not always probable, or likely"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics I a
"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Small: My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out
"My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet