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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.

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

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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. A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. – Laurence J Peter
  4. Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – Alberto Manguel
  5. I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
  6. Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
  7. Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – Alberto Manguel
  8. 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
  9. In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. – Alberto Manguel
  10. Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. – Alberto Manguel
  11. Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be – Alberto Manguel
  12. Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. – Walter Sickert
  13. Be wary of the man who does not offer water, charges too much for water, asks for too much water, and the one who makes water his business. – Suzy Kassem
  14. Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel
  15. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. – Alberto Manguel
  16. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. – Alberto Manguel
  17. One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. – Alberto Manguel
  18. 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
  19. Life happened because I turned the pages. – Alberto Manguel
  20. 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
  21. But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds. – Alberto Manguel
  22. The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. – 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. Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart. – William Wordsworth
  27. Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  28. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
  29. So what’s your story?- Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. -œMy story?--œYeah. Everybody has at least one. – David Levithan
  30. Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story. – Evelyn L Colon
  31. Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry Truman
  32. My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. – Soraya Diase Coffelt
  33. The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. – Robert Galbraith
  34. All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
  35. There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind. – Douglas Adams
  36. not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo. – Walt Whitman
  37. Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That’s life – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  38. Water is water. Water is life sustenance. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  39. Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity. – Euginia Herlihy
  40. I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers. – Maureen Corrigan

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