"I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and……" — Alberto Manguel
"I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before."
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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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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
— Abu Bakr
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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and…
— Annie Besant
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I've got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I'll be trying to do something…
— Lewis Black
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I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.
— Gisele Bundchen
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The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man…
— Kirk Cameron
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I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the…
— Jane Campion
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the…
— Hugo Chavez
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Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
— Amy Chua
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The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
— Madonna Ciccone
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