“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
― The Battle of the Labyrinth
― The Battle of the Labyrinth
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
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[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
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“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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