"I had a library of maybe 1,000 books……" — Alberto Manguel
"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."
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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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Carlitos is amazing. He does what he wants with the Arabs. He tells them "I want to go to Buenos…
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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of…
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The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
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Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was…
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Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.
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Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each…
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Sometimes Buenos Aires is not so safe. You are scared to have someone behind you at night.
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Sunday is the day I connect with Buenos Aires. I speak to or text my mother every day, but on…
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I'm millie in here with them Young Money Milli on aires, Think you wheelie pop a wheelie in air, Mac…
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