"Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins."
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"Every burned book enlightens the world."
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"As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."
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"Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it."
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"The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills."
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"I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me."
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"I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers."
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"I wish I studied more religions, I wish I read the Bible, the Quran. I think as I get older, I will start to really dive into religions, just because I feel like there's truths in all of those books. Clearly. I'm saying there's truths in all of them."
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"Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books."
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"Even bad books are books and therefore sacred."
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"A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book."
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"Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle."
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"I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear."
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"Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings."
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"I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels."
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"Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."
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"Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention."
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"I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes."
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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
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"He loved books; books are cold but safe friends."
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