"I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien."

-- Ralph Bakshi

“We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
“Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.”
“Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise.”
“Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.”
“There is always the other side, always.”

Source : Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books
“In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it...”

Source : Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage
“Do your best. And then let life do the rest.”

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