"Life happened because I turned the pages." — Alberto Manguel
"Life happened because I turned the pages."
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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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'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
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Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most…
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity.…
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I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We…
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything…
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it…
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It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my…
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
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