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The Guide Quotes
The Guide
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R.K. Narayan10,968 ratings, 3.93 average rating, 816 reviews
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“Travelers are an enthusiastic lot. They do not mind any inconvenience as long as they have something to see.”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“But it was like hiding a corpse. I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun.”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“A man who preferred to dress like a permanent tourist was just what a guide passionately looked for all his life. You may want to ask why I became a guide or when. I was a guide for the same reason as someone else is a signaler, porter, or guard. It is fated thus. Don’t laugh at my railway associations. The railways got into my blood very early in life. Engines with their tremendous clanging”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“One often hears of suicide pacts. It seems to me a wonderful solution, like going on a long holiday. We could sit and talk one night perhaps, and sip our glasses of milk, and maybe we should wake up in a trouble-free world. I’d propose it this very minute if I were sure you would keep the pact, but I fear that I may go ahead and you may change your mind at the last second.
‘And have the responsibility of disposing of your body?’ I said, which was the worst thing I could have said.”
― The Guide
‘And have the responsibility of disposing of your body?’ I said, which was the worst thing I could have said.”
― The Guide
“But you are not my wife. You are a woman who will go to bed with anyone who flatters your antics. That’s”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun.”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“In a few months I was a seasoned guide. I had viewed myself as an amateur guide and a professional shopman, but now gradually I began to think of myself as a part-time shop-keeper and a full-time tourist guide.”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“Nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun.”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“A film of the novel, called simply Guide, was released in 1965, produced by and starring Dev Anand, directed by Vijay Anand, and with Waheeda Rehman as Rosie”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“The Indian novel in English has been around for longer than is generally realized, with the first attempts dating to the middle of the nineteenth century.”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“Thousands of persons must have said the same thing to her since, but I happened to be the first in the line.”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“Raju remained silent. He could not open his lips without provoking admiration. This was a dangerous state of affairs.”
― The Guide
― The Guide
“By the twelfth day of his fast, Raju himself has become a tourist attraction. Before an enormous crowd and an American television crew, the starving man is helped down to the drought-stricken river to pray:”
― The Guide
― The Guide
