"I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before."

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Source : Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.36, Penguin

Alberto Manguel

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“Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.”
“I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested in books about Arctic exploration or about doomed Apollo missions. I tend to read a lot of nonfiction that's sort of hyperbolic and visceral. And then I kind of draw on my own personal experiences and my own sort of generic life experience, and I kind of try to feed my day-to-day reality that I have with sort of high stakes reference points that I read about. They're things everyone can relate to.”
“If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.”
“Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera and burst into song. Mormon cheesiness is so close to musical cheesiness.”
“Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.”
“When Bill Clinton assembled the top minds of the nation to discuss the economy in 1992, no one mentioned the Internet.”
“When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.”

Source : Kristin Armstrong (2011). “Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run”, p.81, Rodale
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

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