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- For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.
(J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring")
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- You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You'd make a fortune.
(Ilona Andrews, "Magic Strikes")
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- I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history - true or feigned- with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
(J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring")
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- My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.
(J.D. Salinger, "Franny and Zooey")
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- Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
(J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye")
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- Hey Kizuki, I thought, you're not missing a damn thing. This world is a piece of shit. The assholes are earning their college credits and helping to create a society in their own disgusting image.
(Haruki Murakami, "Norwegian Wood")
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- All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.
(Haruki Murakami, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle")
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- As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought.
(Haruki Murakami, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle")
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- If something came out of the deal, it couldn't make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn't have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom.
(Haruki Murakami, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle")
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- Strange as it may seem-or perhaps it does not seem so strange-they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself.
(Haruki Murakami, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle")
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- She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more - this idea was as sweet as a vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land. ... but Isabel recognized, as it passed before her eyes, the quick vague shadow of a long future. She should never escape; she should last to the end.
(Henry James, "The Portrait of a Lady")
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- He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.
(Hermann Hesse, "Siddhartha")
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- People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.
(Hermann Hesse, "The Glass Bead Game")
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- Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.
(Ian McEwan, "Atonement")
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- He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life.
(Ian McEwan, "Atonement")
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