"I like the beauty of Faulkner’s poetry. But I don’t like his themes, not at all." ― Manuel Puig Topic(s): Time Tags: beauty More From Manuel Puig "It doesn’t matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope." "I can work in films as long as the story doesn’t have a realistic nature. If I’m working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms." "What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don’t they?" More In Time "Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time."― Grace Abbott "Make measurable progress in reasonable time."― Jim Rohn "I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: “Checkout Time is 18 years.”"― Erma Bombeck