"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it."
-Manuel Puig
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"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.“
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"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
-Manuel Puig
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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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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."
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"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
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"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
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"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."
-Mary Schmich
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
-Marianne Williamson
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"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
-Simone de Beauvoir
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"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
-Graham Greene
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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