"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
-Manuel Puig
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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.“
-Manuel Puig
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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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"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 don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it."
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"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media."
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"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
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"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
-Carl D. Anderson
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