"Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order."

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Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.48, Vintage Canada

Alberto Manguel

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“I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain!”
“The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.”

Source : Margaret George (2010). “Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles: A Novel”, p.832, Macmillan
“great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.”
“Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.”
“Each little chapter has its place.”
“The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.”
“Congress is responsible for every major change in India”
“Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.”

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