"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
-Manuel Puig
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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.“
-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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"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
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"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot."
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"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."
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"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
-Theodore Gericault
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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