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“would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama. Absurd.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Never name the well from which you will not drink.”
― The Mists of Avalon
― The Mists of Avalon
“Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.”
― The Dispossessed
― The Dispossessed
“On climate change and other issues with moral implications, we tend to believe that everyone should care for the same self-evident reasons we do. If they don’t, we all too often assume they lack morals. But most people do have morals and are acting according to them; they’re just different from ours. And if we are aware of these differences, we can speak to them.”
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
Curtis’s 2025 Year in Books
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