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“Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.”
― Transition
― Transition
“Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.”
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“Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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