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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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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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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If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
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The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.
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The Federal Reserve is not charged with designing or evaluating proposals for housing finance reform. But we are responsible for regulating and supervising banking institutions to ensure their safety and soundness, and more broadly for the stability of the financial system.
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To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.
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Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.
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Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.
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Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.
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The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
