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Book Quotes: What are the best quotes from books? - Quora - 0 views

  • "A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future."Robert Heinlein - Time Enough for Love
  • "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."Philip K. Dick - I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
  • So we dream on.  Thus we invent our lives. 
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  • We invent what we love and what we fear. 
  • We dream on and on
  • And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them… 
  • You have to keep passing the open windows
  • Show me a hero and I'll write a tragedy.
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Stories - Quora - 0 views

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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003 movie): Why is the Witch King of the Nazgul... - 0 views

  • Being small and pathetic seeming, Eowyn (& Merry) are uniquely placed to exploit the Witch King's arrogance.
  • His single-mindedness about power and his narrow conception of it leads him to not fear any humans - no man can kill him, and the possibility that a halfling and a woman might do it would simply not occur to a mind such as his.
  • "Do not pursue him! He will not return to this land. Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man will he fall".
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  • the prophecy in itself wasn't the thing which imbued either Harry or Angmar with power, it was merely a record of sorts, noting a future occurrence
  • he was stating what is already known
  • Tolkien is famous for leaving loose ends
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