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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
Henry James, after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut three lines from a 5,000 word article (via annadevries)
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‘I meant,’ said Ipslore, bitterly, ‘what is there in this world that makes living worth while?’
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually, CATS ARE NICE.
Terry Pratchett (via excessivelysesquipedalian)
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“I’m not even picking pockets, I’m just feeling them up.”
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Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.
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Magic can kill. Knives can kill. Even small children launched at great speed could kill.
Zevran (Dragon Age Orgins)
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Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. Some girls are made of sarcasm and wine and nothing is fine.
(via seabelle)
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Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
Sai Baba (via wordsnquotes)
Source: wordsnquotes.com
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No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away—until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.
Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett (via chrismcfeely)
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Wood Elves aren’t made of wood. Sea Elves aren’t made of water. M’aiq still wonders about High Elves.
M’aiq the Liar
(via elderscreens)
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‘The Lord Of The Rings’ is mythology, it’s a fairytale, it’s an adventure. It never happened. Except in our hearts. But there was The Shire, in three dimensions and smoke coming out of the burrows where they lived. And… I believed.”
Ian McKellen (via helenehp)
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"And then Legolas did a totally sick backflip and decapitated like 15 orcs. It was fuckin’ sweet"
J.R.R. Tolkien (apparently)
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The eagles…
Bilbo Baggins (via afusionoffandoms)
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It’s an elk played by a horse named Moose.
- Lee Pace (via captain-chris-pike)
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I may be an a-hole, but I’m not 100% a dick
The most inspiring thing I have ever heard (via drunkenkeith)
Just because someone stumbles and loses their way doesn’t mean they are lost forever.
Charles Xavier, X-Men: Days of Future Past (via msdevindanielle)
Tolkien certainly valued the courage of ‘the little men’; he once said that in the trenches of the First World War he saw far more courage from the ordinary soldiers than he did from the officers. In LOTR it is the courage of the little man – or, rather, the hobbit that eventually saves the world. We have the courage of Frodo Baggins, Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck, but they – despite their short stature – are not ‘the little men’ of whom Tolkien speaks. They are the officer class of the Shire: they are the well-to-do, the so-called ‘born leaders’. It is Samwise Gamgee whose courage ultimately saves Middle-earth; and he, the gardener’s son, is precisely the kind of man Tolkien was thinking about.
- Edward James: "Tolkien, Lewis and the explosion of genre fantasy"
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"News of the hour: Lord Bhelen attacks the Assembly and is ignominiously slain! Epic fail!"
- actual line from actual game.