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The Silmarillion
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Jim Jim said: " Incredibly moving and beautiful. Yes it can be difficult but if you take your time and read it as a history/religious text then it is an incredibly satisfying experience. "

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Jane Austen
“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
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Virginia Woolf
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Nick Hornby
“I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

Marilynne Robinson
“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Elizabeth Gaskell
“Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)”
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

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