Alberto Manguel

Quotes

• “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.”
• “We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.”
• “A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.”
• “"reading is at the beginning of the social contract"”
• “I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.”
• “A book brings its own history to the reader.”

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