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Alberto Manguel

Argentinian Writer

Born: Mar 13, 1948

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The telling of stories creates the real world. Alberto Manguel

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I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it. Alberto Manguel

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening. Alberto Manguel

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I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library. Alberto Manguel

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In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art. Alberto Manguel

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We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written. Alberto Manguel

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