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Book Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book,…
- The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they…
- If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.
- The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as…
- Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
- I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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