We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there...
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: words reading books literature
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading books book readers
The starting point is a question.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: question
Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” - The Library at Night
Alberto ManguelAll 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 ManguelEach book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading books escapism
I wanted to live among books.
Alberto ManguelI 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 ManguelStichwörter: reading books read child chilldhood
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: libraries library
Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: books
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