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No such thing as a new story
A few years ago, I had the idea for a series of political events which would cause a crisis between neighbouring kingdoms; the kind of trigger incident which is commonplace in fantasy. Mere weeks after my oh-so-bright idea, I discovered that almost exactly the same series of events had happened in the history of the Pagan Kingdom of what is today Myanmar. So if history has always done it before, w
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Londoners - and I am one by birth, though not upbringing - are often, like other inhabitants of major cities, among the most parocgial people on the p
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“The troll’s tones were rough, his vowels most uncul-tured, the whole tenor of his speech was slovenly and un-educated to a degree far worse than any rustic peasant might employ: in fact, to Rambo’s ears, the accent might even belong to that most awful of entities – a town!”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“The only one not partaking of the general merriment was Rambo.
“But,” he said, with more than a hint of bewilderment in his voice, “do you mean to say that this secret door only opens on one day a year, and then only at sunset? I don’t pretend to know much about these things, but surely it would be easier to have a door one might access at any time? The builders can never have known when it might have been needed. It all seems a little odd.”
The dwarves’ smiles faded a little; Thorny frowned.
“No, no. Not odd at all,” Grendelf replied. He leant forwards, bushy brows bristling. “Not at all odd.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“But,” he said, with more than a hint of bewilderment in his voice, “do you mean to say that this secret door only opens on one day a year, and then only at sunset? I don’t pretend to know much about these things, but surely it would be easier to have a door one might access at any time? The builders can never have known when it might have been needed. It all seems a little odd.”
The dwarves’ smiles faded a little; Thorny frowned.
“No, no. Not odd at all,” Grendelf replied. He leant forwards, bushy brows bristling. “Not at all odd.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND, there lived a dwarf.
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND, there lived a dwarf.
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
― Master & Commander
― Master & Commander
“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”
― Thirteen
― Thirteen
“Like many business men of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.”
― Broken Angels
― Broken Angels
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