"Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms……" — Alberto Manguel
"Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons."
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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 Bullied Quotes
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I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I…
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have…
— Kristin Chenoweth
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More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he…
— Oscar Wilde
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Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it's hard, you feel like high schools never going…
— Megan Fox
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Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused…
— Tim Field
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Only the best are bullied.
— Tim Field
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I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was…
— Simon Pegg
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People that fel alone or outcast that hurt, kids that feel bullied or lost, remember that you have a voice…
— Christina Aguilera
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One in three Canadian teens are bullied. That's nearly two million young Canadians who are teased and excluded. Nearly two…
— Shawn Desman
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If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not…
— Laverne Cox
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No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered…
— Cat Cora
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