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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #2
    Robert Jordan
    “Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
    Robert Jordan

  • #3
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #4
    Robert Jordan
    “Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!”
    Robert Jordan

  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #6
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #8
    C.S. Lewis
    “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #9
    Robert Jordan
    “If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”
    Robert Jordan

  • #9
    Robert Jordan
    “Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
    Robert Jordan

  • #10
    Tom Clancy
    “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
    Tom Clancy

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Bill Watterson
    “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
    What mood is that?
    Last-minute panic.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #13
    A.A. Milne
    “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #14
    Robert Jordan
    “Time to toss the dice”
    robert jordan

  • #15
    Bill Watterson
    “Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
    Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
    Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
    Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #16
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #17
    Rudyard Kipling
    “I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
    Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars

  • #18
    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #19
    Elizabeth Peters
    “Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice...”
    Elizabeth Peters

  • #20
    Elizabeth Peters
    “I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.”
    Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #22
    Elizabeth Peters
    “The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.”
    Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #24
    Benjamin Disraeli
    “A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

    That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
    Benjamin Disraeli

  • #25
    Robert Jordan
    “The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
    Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers

  • #26
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #27
    Robert Jordan
    “The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
    Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

  • #28
    Robert Jordan
    “I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
    Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

  • #29
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    Mark Twain



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