“Wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.”
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“One time G.K. Chesterton, the rolypologist, was patted on the stomach by his adversary, George Bernard Shaw, a beanpole of an infidel, and was asked what they were going to name the baby. Chesterton replied immediately that if it was a boy, John, if a girl, then Mary. But if it turned out to only be gas, they were going to name it George Bernard Shaw.”
― Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
― Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
“If wishes were fishes, we'd have a meal”
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