Quotes by Argentinian authors

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"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"In general, every country has the language it deserves"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"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

"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

"I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself"

Manuel Puig, Author

"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

"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

"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

"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader"

Manuel Puig, Author

"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor"

Manuel Puig, Author

"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

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