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

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
– Alberto Manguel

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  1. Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. – Alberto Manguel
  2. If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be. – Alberto Manguel
  3. From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. – Alberto Manguel
  4. Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don’t enter anymore. – Daisy Whitney
  5. I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory. – Anne Spollen
  6. Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company. – Sunday Adelaja
  7. I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
  8. Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel
  9. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. – Alberto Manguel
  10. Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
  11. Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – Alberto Manguel
  12. 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
  13. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. – Alberto Manguel
  14. One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. – Alberto Manguel
  15. There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. – Alberto Manguel
  16. Life happened because I turned the pages. – Alberto Manguel
  17. In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. – Alberto Manguel
  18. Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. – Alberto Manguel
  19. Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. – Alberto Manguel
  20. But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds. – Alberto Manguel
  21. The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. – Alberto Manguel
  22. Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be – Alberto Manguel
  23. In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. – Alberto Manguel
  24. Darkness promotes speech. – Alberto Manguel
  25. Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. – Alberto Manguel
  26. Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. – Elizabeth Warren
  27. Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry Truman
  28. My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. – Soraya Diase Coffelt
  29. The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. – Robert Galbraith
  30. All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
  31. Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don’t decorate my locker,… – Stephen Chbosky
  32. Would I always look back on this moment with regret, no matter which choice I made? – Nicole R Locker
  33. She didn’t deserve me. She deserved a hell of a lot better than me, but so help me, I wasn’t good enough of a man to just let her go. – Nicole R Locker
  34. The CIA’s offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins. – Kenneth Eade
  35. Stay strong. Don’t be bullied by anyone. – Luke Bookwrighter
  36. Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year. – Steven Magee
  37. Define the life you want.Never allow yourself to be bullied.No one knows your destiny. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  38. Full spectrum lights should be used in all daytime offices for good health. – Steven Magee
  39. But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.That’s why they become politicians. – Anthony Horowitz
  40. I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. – Pat Conroy

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