J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
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My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
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I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.
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Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
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The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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Sunday night I always cook if I can - if I'm home, I always cook.
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You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!
