Alberto Manguel Quotes - Page 4

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• Every text assumes a reader.

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  Assuming, Reader

  Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.391, Penguin

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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 malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

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  Rip, Book, White

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.22, Vintage Canada

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• Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged

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  Book, Pages, Who We Are

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.183, Vintage Canada

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• I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.

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  Thinking, Names, Trying

  "Conversation: Alberto Manguel". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 19, 2010.

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• Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

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  Book, Trying, Path

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.67, Vintage Canada

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• In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.

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  Book, Erotic, Skins

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• Evil requires no reason.

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  Evil, Reason, No Reason

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.231, Vintage Canada

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Order, Perfect

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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 presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

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  Giving, Library, Matter

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.121, Vintage Canada

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• In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.

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  Book, Technology, Cds

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• During the day, the library is a realm of order.

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  Order, Library, Realms

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.17, Vintage Canada

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• As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

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  Language, Barriers

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.

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  Wall, Reading, Book

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text" unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?

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  Moving, Eye, Roots

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is the essential storyteller: he does not portray life, he creates it in all its wonder and terror and magic.

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  Magic, Essentials, Doe

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• Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

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  Lasts, Lists, Facts

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• 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.

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  Children, Book, Night

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• A book brings its own history to the reader.

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  Book, Reader

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

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  Government, Office, Lockers

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• The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

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  Library, World, Encyclopedia

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• Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.

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  Reality, Doe, Literature

  Alberto Manguel (2010). “A Reader on Reading”, p.106, Yale University Press

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• The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.

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  Reading, Mind, Development

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

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  Communication, States, Passages

  Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.95, Penguin

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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 poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

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  Book, Nerd, Poor

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.

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  Ignorance, Creating, Illumination

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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