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“I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.”

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J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer, best known for his fantasy literature, most notably The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. His works have had a profound impact on modern fantasy literature. more

“And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that man, shadowy and distant, half-hidden behind towering white columns that rose clear up to a purple sky. In a passionate pas de deux he danced with me, forever apart, no matter how hard i sought to draw nearer and leap into his arms, where i could feel them protective about me, supporting me ... and with him i'd find, at last, a safe place to live and love.”

Source: Flowers in the Attic

“People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around.”

People World Way Firsts Waiting First Time Died Loved Ones Better Place

Author:Virginia C. Andrews

“Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.”

Men World Way May Matter Reason Beautiful Young Flower Perfection Skins Hunger Ugly Flesh Fats Reason Why Convince Fabric Feathers Shantaram Thighs Velvet

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.”

Want Should Writing Accounts Frightened Obscure Reviewers

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.”

People May Made Enough Given Havens Angry Frustrated Enough Time

Book:The last lecture

Source: The last lecture

“[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.”

“Optimists are happier in life for a reason.”

Reason Optimist

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

“Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.”

Years Long Two Used Party Leader Four Two Years Four Years Senate Johnson Assistants Seniority

Author:Robert Caro

“It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.”

Want Kind Persons Has Beens Kindness Grace Missing Empathy Forgiving Sake Bitterness

Author:Emily Giffin

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