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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: road
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Still round the corner there may wait
    A new road or a secret gate
    And though I oft have passed them by
    A day will come at last when I
    Shall take the hidden paths that run
    West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: books, poetry
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    “I don't like fighting,' he said. 'It makes me hurt inside. Like I'm a kid again. In the cupboard, in the dark. If the grown-ups are fighting, it must be my fault. That's why I don't do rows.' He blinked hard, to keep the tears at bay. She was the only person in the world who could make him feel so exposed. It din't always feel like a good thing. 'Carol, I'm going home tomorrow. I can't manage without you. Not in any sense. So can we stop this no? I can't do it.”
    ― Val McDermid, Beneath the Bleeding
    tags: tony-hill
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing
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    Rik Mayall
    “Love is the answer.”
    ― Rik Mayall
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  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: humor, moist-von-lipwig
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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    Terry Pratchett
    “You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: pray-hope-postal-humour-humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: chance, fear, hope
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    Terry Pratchett
    “ALWAYS REMEMBER that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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    Sue Klebold
    “Asking “why” only makes us feel hopeless. Asking “how” points the way forward, and shows us what we must do.”
    ― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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    Stephen Fry
    “It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
    tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety
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    Stephen Fry
    “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

    [I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: censorship, free-speech, humor, libel, offense, philosophical, politics, sarcasm, slander, wisdom
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    Stephen Fry
    “The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
    ― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
    tags: foolish, foolish-people, ignorant, incuriosity, uninformed, uninformed-opinion
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    Stephen Fry
    “My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.”
    ― Stephen Fry
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    “I was just finishing up my drink then I was off to get the night bus.' Carol grinned. 'Your sophistication never ceases to amaze me. What's wrong with a taxi?' 'You get a better class of nutter on the night bus. I blend in perfectly”
    ― Val McDermid, The Torment of Others
    tags: carol-jordan, tony-hill
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  • #19
    “You take the lead. He'll open up more easily to a copper than a mumbo jumbo man”
    ― Val McDermid, The Wire in the Blood
    tags: tony-hill
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: freedom-of-speech, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Tana French
    “I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack ”
    ― Tana French, The Likeness
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  • #25
    “I would argue there is no more virtue in a beautiful performance than in a beautiful chair that has been made by hand. They are both there to create a feeling, not in the creator, but in the receiver.”
    ― Christopher Eccleston, I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me
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