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Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much. J. R. R. Tolkien
You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy. Margaret Atwood
I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards. Alice Hoffman
The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. William Shakespeare
Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly. Taylor Swift
In winter darkness, the Baghdad Arabian keen blue deepness of the piercing lovely January winter's dusk--it used to tear my heart out, one stabbing soft star was in the middle of the magicalest blue, throbbing like love--I saw Maggie's black hair in this night-- In the shelves of Orion her eye shades, borrowed, gleamed a dark and proud vellum somber power brooding rich bracelets of the moon rose from our snow, and surrounded the mystery. Jack Kerouac
Fang? Are you- like Max?" asked Dr. Martinez. "Nope,"he said, sounding bored. "I'm the smart one." I resisted the urge to kick him in the shin. James Patterson
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust. Alice Munro
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. Jodi Picoult
Booker T. Washington quote: "A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up."
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up. Booker T. Washington
Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours. Anne Sexton
Sue Grafton quote: "You can believe anything you like."
You can believe anything you like. Sue Grafton
Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman's name. George R. R. Martin
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar?..."
Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar? the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder. Yasunari Kawabata
When the Golden Temple reflected the evening sun or shone in the moon, it was the light of the water (in the pond before it) that made the entire structure look as if it were mysteriously floating along and flapping its wings. The strong bonds of the temple's form were loosened by the reflection of the quivering water, and at such moments the Golden Temple seemed to be constructed of materials like wind and water and flame that are commonly in motion. Yukio Mishima

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