"In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long."

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Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.66, Vintage Canada

Alberto Manguel

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“The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.”
“Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.”
“I've ran only about 3 meters and I feel like my heart is going to explode”
“Iâ€™m assuming youâ€™re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. Iâ€™m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. [silence] This is why I donâ€™t make so many jokes. I never know when is good.”
“Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.”
“I live for art. I love entertaining people, making them smile and think. I love to know that a little piece of what they see, read or what they listen to is something that they can think about or see the world in a different way. Art is never-ending and Iâ€™d like to leave something that survives me when Iâ€™ll die.”
“Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.”

Source : "Was John Szarkowski the most influential person in 20th-century photography?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.
“What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.”

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