Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Book Quotes, People Quotes

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

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a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

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Never read any book that is not a year old.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

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Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

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Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

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After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Book Quotes

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

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The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

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