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“Although this block of brick three-stories is just like the one he left, something in it makes him happy; the steps and windowsills seem to twitch and shift in the corner of his eye, alive. This illusion trips him. His hands lift of their own and he feels the wind on his ears even before, his heels hitting heavily on the pavement at first but with an effortless gathering out of a kind of sweet panic growing lighter and quicker and quieter, he runs. Ah: runs. Runs.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“The Lonely Mountain! Bilbo had come far and through many adventures to see it, and now he didn't like the look of it in the least.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien, Хоббит, или Туда и обратно. Сильмариллион. Малые произведения.

“If the odds are 50/50, I don't stand a chance!”
― Rodney Dangerfield

“People, in general," Athos said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers