J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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I want to be sublimely happy.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.
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Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.
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Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
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Love between a man and woman is war.
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What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
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A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
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When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group.
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Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.
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I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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When you are playing great, it's wonderful. Because you and your partner just want to go out and go (rubbing hands together) 'Who we got?' and off you go. But when you're playing badly, or your trust is dented, or your self-belief is gone, it's the worst (freaking) week in the world!
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Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
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Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
