Alberto Manguel Quotes
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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As you get older, you get more accepting - although, if you asked me whose body I would want, I would say Jess Ennis's at the Olympics.
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The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
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I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.
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I grew up in Philadelphia.
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You have to come away with the victory. You can't play this well and come away with a loss.
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It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.
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The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
