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| b573199 | In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship--he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has simply popped out for a sandwich and will yet return to put in a solid afternoon's work. Strictly speaking, all editors since Lig Lury Jr., have therefore been designated acting editors, and Lig's.. | hitchhiker-s-guide humor originality wit | Douglas Adams | |
| 928beb0 | To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. | humor philosophy | Douglas Adams | |
| 5dda752 | After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react. | Douglas Adams | ||
| de48b3f | The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 641be19 | I've heard an idea proposed, I've no idea how seriously, to account for the sensation of vertigo. It's an idea that I instinctively like and it goes like this. The dizzy sensation we experience when standing in high places is not simply a fear of falling. It's often the case that the only thing likely to make us fall is the actual dizziness itself, so it is, at best, an extremely irrational, even self-fulfilling fear. However, in the distan.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 19e9c7d | Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructi.. | genius hermit insanity satire social-anxiety society | Douglas Adams | |
| 447f932 | They say that you breathe so loud that they could shoot you in the dark. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0eca16c | All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a3772bd | After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making." | gollum kettle riddle-solving | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 962da3c | Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea The white lilies sway, And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin In the green fields of Lebennin, In the wind from the Sea! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1b5e908 | The king was silent. "Ents!" he said at length. "Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of the trees, I think. I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we ha.. | hope imagination inspiration war | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| bb43545 | Of course, it is likely enough, my friends," he said slowly, "likely enough that we are going to our dooms: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed at home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e5ed9d3 | Dreamlike it was, and yet no dream, for there was no waking. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4081167 | I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple!" | fantasy humor | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 40d5901 | and suddenly she began to sing. Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates of night and pours its voice among the dying stars, seeing the sun behind the walls of the world | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 61ccc8e | But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. The choice is yours: to go or wait.' 'And it is also said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.' 'Is it indeed?' laughed Gildor. 'Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. | elves frodo-baggins wizards | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 3a3247b | Worst is a bad word," I said to him, "and I hope you do not live to see it." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 29668c7 | Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else ever knew about it was beside the purpose. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0796e81 | He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f600b7f | I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| fcd18f7 | A que le temeis, Senora?-le pregunto Aragorn. -A una jaula. A vivir encerrada detras de barrotes, hasta que la costumbre y la vejez acepten el cautiverio, y la posibilidad y aun el deseo de llevar a cabo grandes hazanas se hayan perdido para siempre. | lord-of-the-rings tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 8958dc8 | The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. | hiding truth | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2302fe8 | The song of Luthien before Mandos was the song most fair that ever in words was woven, and the song most sorrowful that ever the world shall hear. Unchanged, imperishable, it is sung still in Valinor beyond the hearing of the world, and listening the Valar are grieved. For Luthien wove two themes of words, of the sorrow of the Eldar and the grief of Men, of the Two Kindreds that were made by Iluvatar to dwell in Arda, the Kingdom of Earth a.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| bc57ee0 | Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 632ab8f | But Arwen went forth from the House, and the light of her eyes was quenched, and it seemed to her people that she had become cold and grey as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Then she said farewell to Eldarion, and to her daughters, and to all whom she had loved; and she went out from the city of Minas Tirith and passed away to the land of Lorien, and dwelt there alone under the fading trees until winter came. Galadriel had pa.. | Tolkien J.R.R | ||
| c648ffd | Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else knew about it was beside the purpose. He took his staff in one hand and the phial in his other. When he saw that the cle.. | hope inspirational | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| fab0b71 | In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not s.. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| f53edbc | Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 2b32f9c | Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan. | religion | Herman Melville | |
| 1e40510 | At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply. | sanity | Herman Melville | |
| 2e70389 | Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own. | Herman Melville | ||
| 9c549ed | We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room. The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, th.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 7bac127 | Ah, Humanity | Herman Melville | ||
| 7ada5af | From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop. | Herman Melville | ||
| 08cbf1b | Ignorance is the parent of fear | Herman Melville | ||
| e55a066 | Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? | reproach waste | Herman Melville | |
| 50303d9 | He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8b187e3 | Go home.' Montag fixed his eyes upon her, quietly. 'Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozens of abortions you've had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarian sections, too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it? Go home, go home!' he.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b67dc21 | We haven't been too bad, have we?" "No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful things." | good peace world | Ray Bradbury | |
| fd377ee | ltlyfzywn yuGrqk fy bHr mn l'Swt wl'lwn bHyth l tjd lwqt lkfy ltfkr 'w tntqd .. nh yqdm lk l'fkr ljhz@ wl ysmH lk blntqd ldhy ysmH bh lktb .. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| cdde669 | Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer. | inspirational writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| d47051b | Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that, shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ASS. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| bd148a0 | The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8004ad6 | Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. | Ray Bradbury |