"A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples……" — Alberto Manguel
"A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts."
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Alberto Manguel
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84 Quotes by Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel has 84 quotes on this site.
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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded…
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of…
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone…
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the…
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If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded…
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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my…
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Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's…
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home…
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The telling of stories creates the real world.
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More Association Quotes
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill…
— Michele Bachmann
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
— Harry Browne
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules…
— Vince Cable
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I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.
— Herman Cain
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Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I…
— Herman Cain
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
— George Clooney
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What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than…
— Susan B. Anthony
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