We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.

Bilbo Baggins

Quoted in The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Topic

Adventure

Speaker

Bilbo Baggins

Author

J.R.R. Tolkien

Source

The Hobbit

Medium

Novel

Genre

Fantasy

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Tolkiein, J.R.R. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. George Allen & Unwin, 1937, ch. 1.

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

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Topic
Emotional scars

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source
Tender is the Night
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1934 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 14.