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Book Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
- The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
- I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as…
- 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you…
- Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause…
- Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to…
- Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How…
- Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
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