“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
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“You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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