J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down.
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I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I'm talking about.
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You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
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There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.
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There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?
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How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.
