Best Alberto Manguel Sayings
- I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no… Book
- Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. Activity
- Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its… Always Stuck
- But a reader's ambition knows no bounds. Ambition
- A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding… Association
- In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Empty
- Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting… Book
- Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. Always Exceeds
- If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot… Every Library
- It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a… Banned
- Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. Book
- Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for… All
- Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. Absence
- The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on… Affection
- Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. Becomes
- Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and… Accepted
- We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take… Built
- Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful,… Beautiful
- As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that… Almost Nothing
- If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity. Capricious
- Evil requires no reason. Evil
- Darkness promotes speech. Darkness
- In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. Darkness
- We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books… Been
- Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share… Bear
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