Quotes from ten stories that have sung to me in different ways.

1. Then something Tookish woke up inside him,
and he wished to go and see the great mountains,
and hear the pine trees and the waterfalls,
and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of
a walking-stick.
1

2. Fear is the path
to the Dark Side.
Fear leads to anger,
anger leads to hate,
hate leads to suffering.
2

3. The whole aim of Newspeak is to
narrow the language of thought...
In the end we shall make thoughtcrime
literally impossible because
there will be no words
in which to express it.
3

4. "Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get
better. It's not."
4

5. Words can be like X-rays
if you use them properly.
They’ll go through anything.
You read and you’re pierced.”
5

6. To enter out into that silence...
to step over grassy seams and
make your way, hands in pockets,
through the silences, that was what
Mr Leonard Mead most loved to do. 6

7. The most
subversive people
are those who
ask questions.
7

8. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time,
but that signifies little because we all know
that an hour can seem as eternity
or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Time is life itself, and
life resides in the human heart." 8

9. I stand upon my desk
to remind myself
that we must constantly
look at things
9 in a different way.

10. Unfortunately no-one
can be told what
the Matrix is.
You have to see it
for yourself.
10

11. 10 Stories
1: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
2: Star Wars by George Lucas
3: 1984 by George Orwell
4: The Lorax by Dr Seuss
5: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6: The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury
7: Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
8: Momo by Michael Ende
9: Dead Poet’s Society by Tom Shulman
10: The Matrix by Andy & Larry Wachowski
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