"Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par…" — Alberto Manguel
"Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence."
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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 Excellence Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary…
— Walter Bagehot
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and…
— Charles Kendall Adams
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I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
— Tyra Banks
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
— Joseph Addison
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are…
— Warren G. Bennis
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