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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: bluffing, confusion
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  • #3
    J.D. Salinger
    “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: friendship, insincerity, manners
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  • #4
    J.D. Salinger
    “when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: humor
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  • #5
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden-caulfield, life, lying
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  • #6
    J.D. Salinger
    “People are always ruining things for you.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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  • #7
    J.D. Salinger
    “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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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  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: road
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  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
    Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
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  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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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  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Still round the corner there may wait
    A new road or a secret gate
    And though I oft have passed them by
    A day will come at last when I
    Shall take the hidden paths that run
    West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: books, poetry
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  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
    "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: caged, fear, gender-roles
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  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: tolkien
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  • #19
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: benediction, gift, light
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  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: lotr
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  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: war
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  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo-baggins, dissipation, old-age
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  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What does your heart tell you? ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
    tags: aragorn
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  • #25
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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