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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 day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can…
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without…
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and…
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I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock…
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday.…
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There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating…
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I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted…
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