Manuel Rivas quotes

“A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.”
-- Manuel Rivas

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“Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.”
-- Manuel Rivas

Source : Manuel Rivas (2010). “Books Burn Badly”, p.291, Random House

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“See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood. The composition of life. It's all there. Hate as well. We approach the mystery of life, but it's impossible to understand the mystery of hate. The kind of hate that causes people not only to kill, but to want to erase you from the census of births. I have to concentrate on that mystery. Read everything there is. It has to be in a drop of blood. It has to have its chemistry.”
-- Manuel Rivas

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“The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.”
-- Manuel Rivas

Source : Manuel Rivas (2010). “Books Burn Badly”, p.94, Random House

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“When the bandwagon presents itself, you have to jump onto it.”
-- Manuel Rivas

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“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.”

“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”

“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!”

“When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.”

“Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.”