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.

C. S. Lewis

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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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• Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.

  

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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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Die
  • Might
  • Majesty