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The kitchen is the heart of the house.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Heart House Kitchen

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I was not able to be the front forward of a soccer team - that is a way to make people super happy every Sunday. What I can do is tell stories and try to put my coin in that discussion.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Able Coin Discussion Every Every Sunday Forward Front Happy Make People Put Soccer Stories Sunday Super Team Tell Try Way I Can

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Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Adjective Because Book Contemporary Decide Disbelief Fun Hands Kind Mandatory Out Precisely Readers Right Should Suspension Take Writing You

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Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Angry Bisexual Like Looked Man Nothing Tormented Who Young Young Man

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I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Because Come Country History Reality Thirst Tremendous Work

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I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Believe Capability Demands Explanation Explanations Fiction Inspiration Live Offer Things World

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I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: About Book Books Clues Come How Important Magical Nowhere Things Think Where Wondrous Written

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If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: America Became Because Better Better World Books Century Cities City Eventually Global Havana Incredibly Latin Latin America Live Mexico Modern People Poets Read Real See Tried Were World Would You 19Th Century

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There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Brutal Cardinals Field Game Invented Kings Lot Other People Players Power Share Side Tennis Who

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New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Bubble Children Cooking Life Literary More New New York Offers Out Time Useful Very York

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 6th, 1969

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