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King: You must not come lightly to the blank page ... it's writing, d@mn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close this book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

Borowski: There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

Borowski: Do you really think that, without the hope that such a world is possible, that the rights of man will be restored again, we could stand the concentration camp even for one day?

Maigret: A piece of advice, gentlemen! No jumping to conclusions. And no deductions, above all.

Bigwig: I do feel lonely, though. How hard it is to carry a secret by yourself!

King: The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the greatest pop-intellectual myths of our time.

‘When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.’

The Black Rabbit Of Inlé: Here what is is what must be.

‘The kind of ideas that have become natural to many male human beings in thinking of females — ideas of protection, fidelity, romantic love, and so on — are, of course, unknown to rabbits.’ Rabbits are sexist.

Strawberry: Animals don’t behave like men. If they have to fight, they fight, and if they have to kill, they kill. But they don’t sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them.

Aragorn: Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

Gandalf: The rule of no realm is mine, either of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in the days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?

Maigret: The poor are used to stifling any expression of the despair because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made on them day after day, hour after hour.

Maigret : While the suspect in front of him was still holding out, refusing to talk or lying, it was so speak a battle of equals on an almost technical level ... Almost always, sooner or later, the moment came when his restistance would suddenly crack, and Maigret would have him on the ropes because at that moment he became a man again ...

Maigret: It wasn’t a matter of discovering [the human truth] through careful reasoning, through a logical reconstruction of the facts, but of feeling it.

Quart: Americans assume that when people spend their time loving or tending to others, they have somehow stepped out of the commercial — and this any pragmatic, valuable, and intelligent — sphere ... Low pay and lack of respect are what they earn for having jobs taking care of America’s most vulnerable.

The Bog Witch: Let those write who can, and those who can’t, they can write, too.

Gollum: What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?
Sam: Po-ta-toes.

Gandalf: The burned hand reaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart.

Maigret: In general, a criminal case tends to have similarities with one or more previous cases, as the reasons for killing someone, along with the methods of committing murder, are limited.

‘Here [Maigret] was, playing the amateur detective when he had always made fun of them.’

Gandalf: Some other time would be more fitting for the history of smoking.

I always thought it was a shame that Erkenbrand got left out of the movies.

Gandalf: To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.

Gimli: Then [Galadriel] sent me no message?
Legolas: What then? Would you have her speak openly to you of your death?
Gimli: Yes, if she had nought else to say.

Adams: Would that the dead were not dead! ... Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and, when he wakes, thinks only of Penelope.

Holly: Men will never rest till they’ve spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

Rabbit Proverb: My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Wolfe: I have the romantic temperament, but physically I’m not built for it.