That's what this country needs -- more books!
Christopher MorleyStichwörter: reading books book
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
Bertolt BrechtStichwörter: weapon book hunger
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading books book readers
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
Anne FadimanI wanted to live among books.
Alberto ManguelNo one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror--at the cluster or the vastness, the stillness, the mocking reminder of everything one doesn't know, the surveillance--and some of that overwhelming feeling may cling on, even after the rituals and conventions are learned, the geography mapped, and the natives found friendly.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: libraries books book library
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading books read book
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading books book reader immortality rebirth
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading books society book reader
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: books book culture
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