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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f2a8f18 | It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy. | Truman Capote | ||
| 0d634d2 | It seems cruel," she said, "that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labelled: 'Use unknown.'" "Yes, but meanwhile -" "Ah, meanwhile -" | Edith Wharton | ||
| e9ac434 | They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars | Edith Wharton | ||
| 860e60d | He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise. | in-his-arms the-age-of-innocence | Edith Wharton | |
| c000537 | The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5d3d3aa | POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that th.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8110548 | It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport". Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (...) and the architects have on the whole tried to reflect .. | description funny | Douglas Adams | |
| 2e893f4 | Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free. Mighty starships plied their way between exotic suns, seeking adventure and reward among the furthest reaches of Galactic space. In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatur.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b4410a0 | Sometimes if you received an answer, the question might be taken away. | Douglas Adams | ||
| f7c0fae | N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark lord, and something about the end of the world, but please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural. | sam-gamgee | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b49e471 | Follow what may, great deeds are not lessened in worth. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 07495fa | So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it fled, almost gay it seemed to be casting off all doubt and care and fear. And even as it winged away into forgetfulness it heard voices, and they seemed to be crying in some forgotten world far above: | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| cca01cc | Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker. | fantasy fiction-writing j-r-r-tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6bcafa0 | No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate. | lord-of-the-rings middle-earth sam tolkien true-love | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 87de3c8 | But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes. | different time | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a9697de | Mind your P's and Q's. | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
| eabc9a4 | The hands of a king are the hands of a healer. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 232913a | With a suddenness that startled them all the wizard sprang to his feet. He was laughing! "I have it!" he cried. "Of course, of course! Absurdly simple, like most riddles when you see the answer." Picking up his staff he stood before the rock and said in a clear voice: The star shone out briefly and faded again. Then silently a great doorway was outlined, though not a crack or joint had been visible before. Slowly it divided in the middle a.. | gandalf moria | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ab112d8 | Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream. But I count you blessed [...] for your loss you suffer of your own free will, and you might have chosen otherwise. But you have not forsaken your companions, and the least reward that you shall have is that the memory of Lothlorien shall remain ever clear and uns.. | loyalty memories memory | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| fbf216d | I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| fd427d6 | Now when Turin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name. | doom fate | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5900e39 | But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together. | friendship-and-love | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 8f8c145 | At first the beauty of the melodies and of the interwoven words in elven-tongues, even though he understood them little, held him in a spell, as soon as as he began to attend to them. Almost it seemed that the words took shape, and visions of far lands and bright things that he had never yet imagined opened out before him; and the firelit hall became like a golden mist above the seas of foam that sighed upon the margins of the world. Then t.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 983407d | Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them,.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 12c22dd | And when [Beor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Beor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and.. | elves man middle-earth | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b166bb5 | And suddenly first one and then another began to sing as they played, deep-throated singing of the dwarves in the deep places of their ancient homes; and this is like a fragment of their song, if it can be like their song without their music. [...]As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. Then somethi.. | magic songs travel | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 4339693 | I am frightened; and I do not feel any pity for Gollum.' 'You have not seen him,' Gandalf broke in. 'No, and I don't want to,' said Frodo. 'I can't understand you. Do you mean to say that you, and the Elves, have let him live on after all those horrible deeds? Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.' 'Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you g.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 29043ba | Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they saw sneak, sneak. Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice." Sam felt a little remorseful, but not yet trustful. "Sorry," he said. "I'm sorry, but you startled me out of my sleep. And I shouldn't have been sleeping, and that made.. | frodo-baggins gollum hobbit lord-of-the-rings name path rest samwise-gamgee sleep sméagol sneak the-two-towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| d474e7c | As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 5bfa528 | Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| aac0278 | You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams" | David McCullough | ||
| 3bdb6da | The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. | government john-adams liberty mccullough politics-freedom-liberty | David McCullough | |
| 76946a3 | Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. --LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 61a41e6 | The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition! | Herman Melville | ||
| ab4f7b3 | Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. | Herman Melville | ||
| 20f8540 | My body is but the lees of my better being. | Herman Melville | ||
| 19b8881 | However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and to be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for. | Herman Melville | ||
| 84c467b | I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar. | Herman Melville | ||
| be77eec | The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so they resembled steel-toothed carnivores, spitting them into their swift hands as they hammered up frame cottages and scuttled over roofs with shingles to blot out the .. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| eb81e03 | Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, aft.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c27b076 | For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ's birth, there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old OCtober and so on down the years, with no winter, spring, or revivifying summer. FOr these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3fa8fa1 | Kitaplar bize ne tur esekler ve aptallar oldugumuzu hatirlatmak icindir. Kitaplar, toren alayi buyuk bir gurultu icinde caddede ilerlerken, Sezar'in kulagina 'Unutma, Sezar, sen de olumlusun' diyen pretoryen muhafizlaridir. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 52fbc20 | They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6677367 | The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise. | self-importance | Ray Bradbury |