No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic mishap had been reported of many people, and especially of elderly gentlemen of dignity.
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Zum Autor"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
"Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories."
"All stories are ultimately about the fall."
"He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed."
"Grief is a hone to a hard mind."
"I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs."