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One can transform a place by reading in it.
Alberto Manguel
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Alberto Manguel
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 13
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I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.
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Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
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Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.
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