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The real meaning of the sacred texts gave me greater determination to attack evils like caste, animal sacrifices and other rituals being propagated by the priestly class. I was determined to curb meaningless rituals and sacrifices and put an end to the curse of caste. We
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No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.
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There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.
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Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms.
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THE BOOKE OF THE PEOPLE. BEING INSTRUCTIONS TO OUR MAGICKS AND LIFE RULES.
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reliquary of time
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A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.
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Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Every law has a mirror.
The reflection of primitive law is religion,
But the reflection of divine law is literature.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Every line of the Hanuman Chalisa is a Mahamantra.
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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
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Fate's book, but my italics.
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The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.
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what I had tried to do was take the little novel, about one person, where there is not much external action, it is all internal, and extend it into an epic format, do you understand what I mean? He
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The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
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The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
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The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.
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Literature is the memory of humanity.
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No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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This story began with a single, starving family, hunted and alone on the plains of Mongolia - and ends with Kublai Khan ruling an empire larger than that of Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Over just three generations, that is simply the greatest rags-to-riches tale in human history.
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Book I still possess in all the flotsam and ruckus of my life,
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The romance, mystery, intrigue, love, betrayal, and majesty of the greatest epic. As you read, I believe your spirit will soar and your
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This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.
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I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
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Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.
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Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.
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Write your sacred story.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
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Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.
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The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.
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I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha.
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Our histories, our novels, our poems, our plays - they are all in this one book.
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The Tale of Hammad the Badawi.
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The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.
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I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.
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I like the Iliad and the Argosy
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Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.
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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
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A must read book; the Holy Bible.
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There were books involved.
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From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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Books are sacred wisdom.
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The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them ...
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Wise men read books about history, Pliny. Strong men write them.
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Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
Lies open, writ in blossoms.
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I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.
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From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
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I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
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Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.
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Books are our true but not our truest of companions, they know only to enrich but takes away nothing.
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A simple tale, told at the right moment, transforms a person's life with the order its pattern brings to incoherent energies. (Myth and Education)
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Melville's Moby-Dick -
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Tolkien didn't just write 'The Hobbit,' he created a whole world.
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My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.
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Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it .
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'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.
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Book of the Prophet Isaiah
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The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else
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What a wealth we are granted, in the books that carry the best in us through time.
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The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.
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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
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The Bible is the greatest book of all times.
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Literature is the history of the soul.
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No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?
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Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.
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In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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A noble book! all men's book!
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Every book is a world.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past
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I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.
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I wish to deal only with the masterpieces which the consensus of opinion for a long time has accepted as supreme. We are all supposed to have read them; it is a pity that so few of us have.
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People were unable to appreciate the worth of what was profound and stable which provided them with a safe anchor, so ruminated Mahendra. On the other hand, people foolishly ran after what was ephemeral and deceptive which gave one no real contentment - life's most desirable prize!
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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil)
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History is Storytelling.
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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
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I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.
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The novel must tell a story.
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With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
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Beautiful books, full of knowledge and beauty and ideas. All lost, thanks to a mad monk who, in the end, became a little too mad even for the church he served.
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Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
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History begins in novel and ends in essay.
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ever written. I went to bed with it and read