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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
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“But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“Sometimes we build such high walls for protection that we forget that our greatest enemy can grow from within.”
― Hush
― Hush
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