“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”
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“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time.”
― Murphy
― Murphy
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
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