Alberto Manguel
Related KILROY J. OLDSTER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ELIF SHAFAK The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books... BRIAN WHITE CASSANDRA CLARE HAROLD BLOOM MATT HAIG JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do beli... ELIF SAFAK Sin may separate us from God but sin may not separate God from us. CREZ CHARBEL TADROS BELL HOOKS We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. GERRIT SMITH EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON BLAISE PASCAL HENRY DAVID THOREAU KURT VONNEGUT JR. VOLTAIRE The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for k... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON RALPH WALDO EMERSON JEREMY COLLIER Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their... MELODIE RAMONE JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN What doesn’t kill us may make us stronger but what we grow up believing we have to change can sure... DEE SHIHADY JODI MEADOWS DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROBERT HARRIS JOSEPH JOUBERT JOHN WOODEN JARED DIAMOND WILKIE COLLINS A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.LIZ HAY NATALIE GOLDBERG HENRY DAVID THOREAU HENRY DAVID THOREAU URSULA K. LE GUIN VIRGINIA WOOLF ROBERT KENNEDY Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. M... JANE SIBERRY WILLIAM HAZLITT HENRY DAVID THOREAU CARL SAGAN FRANZ KAFKA CORY DOCTOROW CARLA H. KRUEGER ISRAELMORE AYIVOR ISMAT AHMED SHAIKH We're basing our negotiation on what the company is providing us. We're continually monitoring the b... GEORGE PRICE We're basing our negotiation on what the company is providing us, ... We're continually monitoring t... GEORGE PRICE RICK PERRY We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our inst... ASA GRAY They haven't written the books to teach us all we want to know about our existence and us. And a lar... MARIANA FULGER MICHAEL MORPURGO RAY BRADBURY LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") BLAISE PASCAL F. SIONIL JOSE ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us ... ERICA SEHYUN SONG In the very same books that tell us to locate our self-worth not in how we look but in who we are an... RUBY TANDOH C. JOYBELL C. Those comments were made some 12 or 13 years ago. All of us may hold opinions which are objectionabl... INAYAT BUNGLAWALA From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. DAVID ANTIN I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science ficti... CONNIE WILLIS A lot of mine owners mine not only in New Mexico, but in Central America. A revenue agent may be exa... BILL BRUNSON Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback books, mostly intro. ... JOSHUA ISARD JEANETTE WINTERSON If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN DESIDERIUS ERASMUS WALTER BENJAMIN JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE LAUREN DESTEFANO JANE AUSTEN WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Just because we have 30 students in a course doesn't mean we'll sell 30 books. It's going to affect ... JACK VAUGHN IRISH BLESSINGS MALALA YOUSAFZAI YANN MARTEL Sycophancy is the course we all must compulsorily study,to qualify us to be in the good books of mos... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) TRENTON LEE STEWART This means that certain iron meteorites may tell us what the precursor material for the primordial E... WILLIAM BOTTKE J.R.R. TOLKIEN Just a year ago the public gave us a mandate to lead -- not to protect what exists, but to change th... EHUD BARAK ANNE LAMOTT Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff i... KATHRYN ERSKINE MALALA YOUSAFZAI MARTHA BECK Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth... TONY D'SOUZA ADAM SMITH We are constantly checking our circulation system database which tells us who the books are issued t... DEB BEISELL BLAISE PASCAL Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they writ... JULIAN GREEN THOMAS CARLYLE BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The possibility that he may not be recovered is there. We certainly hate that, but we've done everyt... GARY HARGROVE SIR WALTER SCOTT JOHN UPDIKE
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ALBERTO MANGUEL The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, t... ALBERTO MANGUEL Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us ... ALBERTO MANGUEL Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. ALBERTO MANGUEL If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we ... ALBERTO MANGUEL I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spe... ALBERTO MANGUEL It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and ... ALBERTO MANGUEL I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was... ALBERTO MANGUEL I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think... 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what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all 
all may not be well but, sometimes, things that seem so uncanny are what shield and protect us from ... 
Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. 
One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power... 
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh... 
Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for... 
The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in ... 
Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing ... 
Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but ... 
The Wise
(Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from their gr... 
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver... 
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; suc... 
Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pag... 
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. 
Some books leave us free and some books make us free. 
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. 
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and hap... 
Before I had a chance to feel too sorry for myself, I turned toward the front of the cabin and found... 
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of h... 
All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... 
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. 
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. 
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have ... 
Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it ... 
Read books. They are good for us. 
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. 
Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of wh... 
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild bo... 
American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult... 
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. 
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. 
Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wis... 
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doe... 
We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w... 
There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. 
They may not change your skins colour; they may not change your body odour; but once they can change... 
Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it. 
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future g... 
Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. 
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one... 
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;... 
Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave ... 
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not underst... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then ... 
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's mi... 
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method... 
I, for my share, cannot understand," continued she, "how men have made themselves believe that God s... 
He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with ... 
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. 
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, auth... 
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, se... 
May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us,... 
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. 
May books spread the world over! 
In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for... 
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together hap... 
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