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Alberto Manguel Quotes

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it’s popular. What I’m saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art Picture Quote #1

I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it’s a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there Picture Quote #1

Life happened because I turned the pages Picture Quote #1

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 the right way. You’ll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn’t fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library Picture Quote #1

It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth Picture Quote #1

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself Picture Quote #1

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Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence Picture Quote #1

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries Picture Quote #1

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier Picture Quote #1

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted Picture Quote #1

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion Picture Quote #1

I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords Picture Quote #1

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Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary Picture Quote #1

The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world’s text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read Picture Quote #1

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen Picture Quote #1

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before Picture Quote #1

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don’t know that I am their reader Picture Quote #1

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users Picture Quote #1

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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible Picture Quote #1

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone Picture Quote #1

I don’t remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books Picture Quote #1

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian Picture Quote #1

Possessing these books has become all important to me, because I have become jealous of the past Picture Quote #1

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world’s essential, joyful muddle Picture Quote #1

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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 the space around me with ancient and new voices Picture Quote #1

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth Picture Quote #1

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world Picture Quote #1

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order Picture Quote #1

We seem to live a culture that doesn’t want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written Picture Quote #1

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence Picture Quote #1

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In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it’s popular. What I’m saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art (Alberto Manguel Quotes) I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it’s a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Life happened because I turned the pages (Alberto Manguel Quotes) 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 the right way. You’ll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn’t fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library (Alberto Manguel Quotes) It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth (Alberto Manguel Quotes) The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence (Alberto Manguel Quotes) One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries (Alberto Manguel Quotes) As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion (Alberto Manguel Quotes) I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary (Alberto Manguel Quotes) The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world’s text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen (Alberto Manguel Quotes) I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before (Alberto Manguel Quotes) This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don’t know that I am their reader (Alberto Manguel Quotes) The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible (Alberto Manguel Quotes) All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone (Alberto Manguel Quotes) I don’t remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books (Alberto Manguel Quotes) In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Possessing these books has become all important to me, because I have become jealous of the past (Alberto Manguel Quotes) If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world’s essential, joyful muddle (Alberto Manguel Quotes) 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 the space around me with ancient and new voices (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth (Alberto Manguel Quotes) In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order (Alberto Manguel Quotes) We seem to live a culture that doesn’t want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written (Alberto Manguel Quotes) Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence (Alberto Manguel Quotes)

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