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From its very start, reading is writings apotheosis (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
Every text assumes a reader (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
Darkness promotes speech (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
I wanted to live among books (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
The starting point is a question (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book’s definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
During the day, the library is a realm of order (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
I know that something dies when I give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
The telling of stories creates the real world (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
Evil requires no reason (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
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 doesn’t, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere. (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
...the Bush administration may, in future years, be remembered ‘for bringing peace to the Middle East’ (as Condoleezza Rice has pronounced). History may be the mother of truth, but it can also give birth to illegitimate children. (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn’t come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages. (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
Reading is at the beginning of the social contract (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
A book brings its own history to the reader (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
One can transform a place by reading in it (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end (Alberto Manguel Quotes)
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there’s still this idea that the reader doesn’t take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn’t do it because he’s not making any money (Alberto Manguel Quotes)