"Maybe this is why we read, and why……" — Alberto Manguel
"Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know."
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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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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if…
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
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Learning is finding out what you already know.
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what…
— Andrea Bocelli
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You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when…
— John Bolton
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I…
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When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
— Jared Sparks
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You've been here before, you already know how it goes, you chose this, you know, it's supposed to be over
— Unknown Author
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure"…
— Mark Twain
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