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| b774315 | For my present purpose I require a word which shall embrace both the Sub-Creative Art in itself, and a quality of strangeness and wonder in the Expression, derived from the Image: a quality essential to fairy-story. I propose, therefore, to arrogate to myself the powers of Humpty-Dumpty, and to use Fantasy for this purpose: in a sense, that is, which combines with its older and higher use as an equivalent of Imagination the derived notions .. | literacy | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 855c904 | Then suddenly he beheld his sister Eowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart; and then his face went deathly white; and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while. A fey mood took him. 'Eowyn, Eowyn!' he cried at last: 'Eowyn, how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!' Then witho.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 15d7c5b | I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man's pity. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9bad6b8 | Tres Anillos para los Reyes Elfos bajo el cielo. Siete para los Senores Enanos en palacios de piedra. Nueve para los Hombres Mortales condenados a morir. Uno para el Senor Oscuro, sobre el trono oscuro en la Tierra de Mordor donde se extienden las Sombras. Un Anillo para gobernarlos a todos. Un Anillo para encontrarlos, un Anillo para atraerlos a todos y atarlos en las tinieblas en la Tierra de Mordor donde se extienden las Sombras. | el-señor-de-los-anillos español one-ring spanish the-lord-of-the-rings tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 3bff32b | These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can. | deforestation earth-first ecocide ecology elves environment meat peta tolkien vegan vegetarian vegetarianism | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| e787075 | And, Legolas, when the torches are kindled and men walk on the sandy floors under the echoing domes, ah! Then, Legolas, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel. There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, Legolas, fluted and twisted into dreamlike forms; they spring up from many-coloured floor.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0233801 | He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9946e54 | But the Queen Arwen said: 'A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him now when he departs to the Havens; for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so I have chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. But in my stead you shall go, Ring-bearer, when the time comes, and if you then desire it. If your hurts grieve you still and the memory or your burden is heavy, then you may pass into the West, until all y.. | frodo j-r-r-tolkien queen-arwen ring-bearer the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| fefedaf | Drei Ringe den Elbenkonigen hoch im Licht, Sieben den Zwergenherrschern in ihren Hallen aus Stein, Den Sterblichen, ewig dem Tode verfallen, neun, Einer dem Dunklen Herrn auf dunklem Thron Im Lande Mordor, wo die Schatten drohn. Ein Ring, sie zu knechten, sie alle zu finden, Ins Dunkel zu treiben und ewig zu binden Im Lande Mordor, wo die Schatten drohn | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2983235 | Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 97de884 | For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it. | Herman Melville | ||
| 6e74501 | I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. | Herman Melville | ||
| 88115b0 | Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 65cc46b | My waiter friend, Laurent, working at the Brasserie Champs du Mars near the Eiffel Tower, one night while serving me Une Grande Beer, explained his life. "I work from ten to twelve hours, sometimes fourteen," he says, "and then at midnight I go dancing, dancing, dancing until four or five in the morning and go to bed and sleep until ten and then up, up and to work by eleven and another ten or twelve or sometimes fifteen hours of work." "How.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| d7ee4f4 | If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 71f695f | Nobody moved. Everybody sat in the dark cellar, suspended in the suddenly frozen task of this October game; the wind blew outside, banging the house, the smell of pumpkins and apples filled the room with smell of the objects in their fingers while one boy cried, "I'll go upstairs and look!" and he ran upstairs hopefully and out around the house, four times around the house, calling, "Marion, Marion, Marion!" over and over and at last coming.. | halloween october | Ray Bradbury | |
| 96a7ef8 | The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day." "Good." "They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and . But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you e.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 804647f | This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e3a3e05 | The grass whispered under his body. He put his arm down, feeling the sheath of fuzz on it, and, far away, below, his toes creaking in his shoes. The wind sighed over his shelled ears. The world slipped bright over the glassy round of his eyeballs like images sparked in a crystal sphere. Flowers were sun and fiery spots of sky strewn through the woodland. Birds flickered like skipped stones across the vast inverted pond of heaven. His breath.. | summertime | Ray Bradbury | |
| b45c890 | Hope was all that stood between them and death. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 5690a09 | The inward man is faced with a new and often dramatic task: He must come to terms with the inner tremendum. Since the God 'out there' or 'up there' is more or less dissolved in the many secular structures, the God within asks attention as never before. And just as the God outside could be experienced not only as a loving father but also as a horrible demon, the God within can be not only the source of a new creative life but also the cause .. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 912da8d | To care means first of all to empty our own cup and to allow the other to come close to us. It means to take away the many barriers which prevent us from entering into communion with the other. When we dare to care, then we discover that nothing human is foreign to us, but that all the hatred and love, cruelty and compassion, fear and joy can be found in our own hearts. When we dare to care, we have to confess that when others kill, I could.. | church community empathy experience jesus mankind | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| a1620e5 | There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 1d4d9da | You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all. | love poetry tolerance | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 80d133f | Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. | acceptance grief joy life seasons serenity sorrow | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 5c7d124 | Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. | David Allen | ||
| 018f839 | You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented. | planning resource-allocation strategy | Clayton M. Christensen | |
| 6666b5a | There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk, and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod and frown and, God help him, even smile. But it is a fierce trial attempting to speak a few simple words. | desperation | William Styron | |
| 601b076 | By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself | survive understanding | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| bbf2f08 | So sell the Hummer, buy a Dodge, and move into a trailer. (Wulf) Oh, yeah, right. Remember when I traded the Hummer for an Alpha Romeo last year? You burned the car and bought me a new Hummer and threatened to lock me in my room with a hooker if I ever did it again. And as for the perks...Have you bothered to look around this place? We have a heated indoor pool, a theater with surround sound, two cooks, three maids, and a pool guy I get to .. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2294d86 | Was it like this? (Jesse) (Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.) That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 41c38ba | So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 35bc0b9 | Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and bleeding in the car, and Cain unconscious in the trunk. No wonder I was anxious to get back to Toronto. Spend too much time around these guys and you become a little too nonchalent about blood-soaked clothes and bodies in the trunk | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 322c610 | When the subject of kids first came up years ago, I'd joked that the only thing I could imagine worse than me as a mother was Clay as a father. I couldn't have been more wrong. Clay was an amazing parents. The guy who couldn't spare a few minutes to hear a mutt's side of the story could listen to his kids talk all day. The guy who couldn't sit still through a brief council meeting could spend hours building Lego castles with his kids. The g.. | elena-michaels | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 0611194 | Derek? Derek!-Chole Chole! what are you doing out here? i said we will check it out later. key word WE-Derek oh, yeah I decided to come out on my own. thats why i was calling your name repeatively- Chole | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 6ceacc2 | I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does. | paranormal urban-fantasy-series werewolf | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 66dd999 | A weed is a plant out of place.' Let me repeat that. A weed is a plant out of place.' I find a hollyhock in my cornfield, and it's a weed. I find it in my yard, and it's a flower. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 62ce5dd | Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example. | crime-fiction human-condition | Jim Thompson | |
| b0be118 | you might think it wasn't real nice to kick a dying man, and maybe it wasn't, but I'd been wanting to kick him for a long time, and it just never had seemed safe till now | Jim Thompson | ||
| c09488d | It looked like I'd sold my pottage for a mess of afterbirth, as the saying is. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped on. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 77b742b | Well, anyway, by the time it got ready to vote, it looked like a fella wouldn't be able to have no fun at all anymore, if my opponents were elected. About all a fella would be able to do, without getting arrested, was to drink sody-pop and maybe kiss his wife. And no one liked the idea very much, the wives included. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 9af5308 | It was a warship, after all. It was built, to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty in both the weaponry of war and the violence and devastation which that weaponry was capable of inflicting, and yet it knew that attractiveness stemmed from a kind of insecurity, a sort of childishness. It could see that--by some criteria--a warship, just by the perfe.. | military morality technology weapons | Iain M. Banks | |
| 969eccc | There was nothing worse, Veppers thought, than a loser who'd made it. It was just part of the way things worked - part of the complexity of life, he supposed - that sometimes somebody who absolutely deserved nothing more than to be one of the down-trodden, the oppressed, the dregs of society, lucked out into a position of wealth, power and admiration. At least people who were natural winners knew how to carry themselves in their pomp, whet.. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 3a7e959 | I am not answering these questions anymore," I said to him as I took my plate to the sink. "We should have gone metric years ago." Iain Banks" | Iain M. Banks |