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William William said: " I like this book, but then I have a passion about people clearly relating their thoughts to a reality. This book is, not surprisingly, about just that. How do you relate your ideas to your location? Do you make a map of the imaginings you have? If yo ...more "

 
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J.R.R. Tolkien
“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

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

Terry Pratchett
“It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.”
Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

Neil Gaiman
“What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?"
"Stories. And they give me hope.”
Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602

Douglas Adams
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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