Explore more quotes by Manuel Puig

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

Dream, Dreams

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

Work, Intuition

"Writers are not meant for action."

Action, Writers

"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."

Problems, Therapy

"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."

Movies, Growingup, Quick, Years

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

Environment, Unconscious

"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."

Money,

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

Life, Hope, Hollywood

"In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that."

Film, Will

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

Beauty, Poetry

Exlpore more Humor quotes

"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Humor, Country, Russia

"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Humor, Now

"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."

Stephen Leacock, Canadian Economist

Humor, Life, Day

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Humor, Art, Dying, Hell

"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Humor, Cowardice

"It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Humor, Fault, Theories

"We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Humor, Home, War, Christmas, Country

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."

Mark Twain, American Author

Humor, Truth, Fiction, Sense, Wonder

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Humor, Rain, Weather

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Humor, Care