That's what this country needs -- more books!

Christopher Morley

Mots clés reading books book

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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

Mots clés weapon book hunger

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

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés reading books book readers

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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Anne Fadiman

Mots clés books book

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I wanted to live among books.

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés books book

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No 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 Manguel

Mots clés libraries books book library

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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 Manguel

Mots clés reading books read book

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Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés reading books book reader immortality rebirth

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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 Manguel

Mots clés reading books society book reader

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One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés books book culture

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