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One Quotes by Alberto Manguel
- Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by…
- I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in…
- We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the…
- At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave…
- One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.
- My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill…
- 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…
- 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…
- Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between…
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