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Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.


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J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has go...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN