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Alberto Manguel has 84 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 scholar, the…
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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 the universal…
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
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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 their passage…
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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
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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 creatures, ordered…
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
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The telling of stories creates the real world.
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The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
— Marya Mannes
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Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was…
— Grace Abbott
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Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes…
— Alice Miller
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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
— Ludwig Quidde
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I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a…
— Dennis Chavez
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
— Virginia Woolf
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It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly…
— Alberto Manguel
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Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of…
— Virginia Woolf
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived…
— Adolf Hitler
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