Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who … - J. R. R. Tolkien

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The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

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It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

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I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

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