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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All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
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I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.
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Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
