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It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.

~Alberto Manguel

Topics: Above Any Because Considered Developed Far Game He Idea Ivory Making Metaphor Money Now Other Part Politics Reader Readers Reasons Social Society Still Take Themselves Tower Used Were

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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

Topics: Beautiful Culture How Literature Live Models Most Most Beautiful Notion Order Our Perfect Seem Seen Should Vision Want Written

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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

Topics: Becomes Experience Find Grounded Imagine Name Once Suddenly Then Think Those Try Understand Use Who Without Words World You Your I Think I Can

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A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.

~Alberto Manguel

Topics: Book Come Flips Full He He Or She Last Life Limbo Moment Pages Picks Point Puts Reader She Stop Stops Text Until Up Writer Writing

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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

Topics: Always Back Because Book Books Came Child Even Evening Every Home Knew Live Lot Traveled Wanted Which I Came

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I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

~Alberto Manguel

Topics: Back Book Books Child Confusion Experience Go Illustrations Knew Knowing Make Night Not Knowing Place Quickly Remember Same Spend Supposed Sure Text Well Were Where Would I Remember

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I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.

~Alberto Manguel

Topics: Any Anywhere Attachment Been Birth Certain Could Give Happened Justify Me Mind Mother Never Place Really Reasons Thankfulness Towards Understood

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The telling of stories creates the real world.

~Alberto Manguel

Topics: Creates Real Real World Stories Telling The Real World World

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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

Topics: Because Book Books Buy Categories Did Divided Everything Fit Had Knew Library Maybe Needed Organised Psychiatric Right Right Way Room Sense Serious Think Times Treatment Way Were Which Would You

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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

Topics: Am Any Anything Art Because Demeaning Fed Form Hard Hard Time Industrial Length Machinery Other Popular Rules Saying Size Surviving Time Way Writing

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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