We may have to change the rules and use normal sentences instead of direct speech quotes; there are works that have no direct speech at all - several of the Tom Bombadil poems, for example.
And now for something completely different...
W, please!
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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