C. S. Lewis Quotes

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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Glasgow is the only professional club I have been at and when the offer came up I was delighted to sign – it was pretty easy.
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If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
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Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.
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No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.