"The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story."

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Source : Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Tom Shippey

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“to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance”

Source : J Krishnamurti, Mabel Collins, H P Blavatsky (2014). “Inspirations from Ancient Wisdom: At the Feet of the Master, Light on the Path, the Voice of the Silence”, p.52, Quest Books
“I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.”

Source : "Cheryl Cole: 'I hate this year'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.
“I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.”
“You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.”

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“He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.”
“The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.”
“With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.”
“Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skilful than yesterday, more skilful than today. This is never-ending.”

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