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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.
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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 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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Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
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Alberto Manguel
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1948
(age 76)
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