Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
J. R. R. TOLKIENEven the smallest person can change the course of the future
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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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.
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