C. S. Lewis Quotes
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
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I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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Keep your head up and be patient.
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College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.
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I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
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You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
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The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom.
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Its like Dr. Doolittle in this fucking house here.
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117: It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and, learning to be self-critical?
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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I'm really just trying... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
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It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.
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I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.
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A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.
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I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
