Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. - Manuel Puig

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I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that's how it naturally progresses - things like family, responsibilities, and your job all take precedent.

Manuel Puig

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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

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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.

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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined.

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Drew Magary

I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that's how it naturally progresses - things like family, responsibilities, and your job all take precedent.

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Tom Clancy

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

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Allen Klein

There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes we don't. Still, the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.

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Mary Kay Ash

Most of us die with our music underplayed. . . We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.

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