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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds…
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There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond…
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You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science…
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I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far…
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…
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You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting…
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Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but…
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God is the nest we build together.
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Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer…
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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat…
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.
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Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And…
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Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and…
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You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in…
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I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a…
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And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed…
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