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Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.
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I had done this all by myself. No one had performed the magic for me. I and the shapes were alone together, revealing themselves in a silently respectful dialogue. Since I could bare lines into living reality, I was all powerful. I could read.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.
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Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
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In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
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If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.
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Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
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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.
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Reading is at the beginning of the social contract
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I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
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From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Alberto Manguel
Born:
1948
(age 76)
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Alberto Manguel is an Argentine Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist and editor.
Known for:
A history of reading (1996)
The Library at Night (2005)
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1980)
A reading diary (2004)
With Borges (2004)
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