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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

Ancient Countryside Earth Favourite
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Art Contain Elements Error
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Any Anything Even Fit
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

Act Acted Actor Celebrities
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
Illiterate Lot Quite Read
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

Exactly Know Mean It
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

Admit Doing Even Hardly
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
I Love I Write Just Like
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

Intend Like Myself Necessarily
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Aloof Doing Kind Known
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Always Anyone Deeply Feel
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I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

Beat Board Cards Hits
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
Comic Indeed Joke Mankind
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Dare Myself Places Say
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Dreams False Poets Tales
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Books Lore Men More
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Adversity pursues sinners, but the righteous will be rewarded with prosperity.

Prosperity Rewarded Sinners Adversity
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Women Better Worse Men
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Artificial Backgrounds Conformity Consequences
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'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

Nas
Album Back Bringing Career
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

Nas
Anybody Artist Classical Rapper
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

Nas
Beautiful Beautiful Life Fun Get
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

Anything Bet Care End
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

Accept Best Content Craves
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

Nas
About Anything Be Happy Being
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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

Am Anything Down Dream
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

Any Anything Better Cannot
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Beautiful Children Extent Fellow
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Board Easy God Gods
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

About Basic Bore Endless
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
Fool He Know Man
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I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Am Does Flaws Get
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Institution Live Marriage Want
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Children Devil Failure God
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Always Been Children Clothes
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The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

Add Also Brother Glory
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With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

Attitude Dizzy Height Climb
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Big Pleasures Relish Small
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Getting Giving Happiest Happiest People
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Backwards Discipline Forward Going
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Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Any Elements Every God
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Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.

Always Down Faith Feel
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We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.

Fail Fails Family God
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Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Recognition Work Worthy But
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Everyone have power of brain but people don't know correctly time of usage. winner just know when, where & how to usage it.

Power Brain People Time
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Acquired Along Better Enough
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Believe Faith Abilities Humble
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Battle Happiness Life Retreat
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Action Restorer Builder Confidence
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