J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.
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My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
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I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
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I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.
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The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
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It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.
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I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.
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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.
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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
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The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.
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Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.
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They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.
