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#1

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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“Accountants come in pairs these days. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and a sheen of perspiration, plus his younger accomplice, a woman who looks like her hobbies are arranging things in rows and making right angles.”
― Harry Bingham

tags: technique

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“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
― Robert Jordan

tags: forgiveness, men, women

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“Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There’s a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There’s heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is dark, every problem grows larger, and every wound and illness grows worse.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

tags: technique

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#5

“There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

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“The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.”
― John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man

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#7

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

tags: friends, humor, people

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#8

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower

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#9

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#10

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: classics

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#11

“The words she sang were his. They told of evils in the world and an absent hero.”
― Katherine Starbird, Reenie Gyse

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#12

“He remembered believing there had been a time when monsters roamed the earth. The brave hearted fought flesh-and-blood dragons instead of shadowboxing their inner demons, the sport of modern man.”
― Katherine Starbird, Reenie Gyse

tags: fantasy, modern-life

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#13

“A soft landing covers a multitude of sins.”
― Katherine Starbird, Reenie Gyse

tags: caution, sailing

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#14

“How does it feel to be free?”
― Katherine Starbird, The Jaguar Key: The Eternals: Rosamond's Story

tags: freedom

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#15

“No matter how badly she wanted to see it otherwise, her goddess heart still demanded tribute. And loyalty.”
― Katherine Starbird, The Jaguar Key: The Eternals: Rosamond's Story

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#16

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#17

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#18

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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#19

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

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#20

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#21

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#22

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

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#23

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#24

“He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: fantasy, god, goodness, safety, security

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#25

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

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#26

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy

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#27

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#28

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

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#29

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

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#30

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

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