Tolkienic Quotes & Sayings

I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was — Martin Luther King Jr.

Anyone who's taken a lot of creative-writing classes, or taught creative writing, has learned to dread a certain kind of manuscript. It's long, for one thing. It has irritatingly small type; it's grammatically meticulous when it comes to everything but punctuation, for which it has developed its own system of Tolkienic elaboration. — Tom Bissell

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty. — Patrick White

Death is healing, it tells us to forgive, it reminds us that we don't want to die alone. — Lucia Berlin

the good society would have a low rate of inheritance of social status and correspondingly low variations in income and wealth. — Gregory Clark

It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution must necessarily begin with atheism." That is absolutely true. But the world had never before known a godlessness as organized, militarized, and tenaciously malevolent as that practiced by Marxism. Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions. Militant atheism is not merely incidental or marginal to Communist policy; it is not a side effect, but the central pivot. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn