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    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Hilary Mantel
    “[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: allegory, brooks, creation, destruction, earth, environment, fish, glens, loss, man, maps, mystery, nature, parable, past, trout, wonder, world
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    Frank Herbert
    “He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: commodity, economics, science-fiction, spice, supply-chain
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    John Steinbeck
    “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel
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    John Steinbeck
    “There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: truth
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Hilary Mantel
    “Those who are made can be unmade.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
    tags: life, life-lessons, made, threatening
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    Hilary Mantel
    “Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
    tags: denial, ignoring-the-obvious, truth, unwelcome-reality
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    John Steinbeck
    “We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: east-of-eden
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    Hilary Mantel
    “It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
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    Hilary Mantel
    “You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
    tags: historical-fiction
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    Hilary Mantel
    “At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: humor
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    Hilary Mantel
    “Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: descriptive
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    Hilary Mantel
    “He knows different now. It's the living that chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their lives. Thomas More had spread the rumor that Little Bilney, chained to the stake, had recanted as the fire was set. It wasn't enough for him to take Bilney's life away; he had to take his death too.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: death, ghosts, history, thomas-cromwell, thomas-more
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  • #17
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: life
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: apocalypse, life, the-road, thoughtful
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: attitude, fire, hope, inspirational, persistence
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: time
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan
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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: death, legacy, life, muad-dib, philosophy, truth, wisdom
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    Frank Herbert
    “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: duke-leto-atreides
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    Frank Herbert
    “Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'

    - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: arrakis, attitude, complete, dune, knife
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  • #29
    Colleen McCullough
    “The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape, for men are not uniform.”
    ― Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome
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    Bram Stoker
    “Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: entrapment, supernatural, welcome
    916 likes



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