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 wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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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!
