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Been Quotes by Alberto Manguel
- And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over…
- I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place…
- Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I…
- 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…
- 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…
- It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes…
- As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour