C. S. Lewis Quotes
The only non-Christians who seemed to me really to know anything were the Romantics; and a good many of them were dangerously tinged with something like religion, even at times with Christianity. The upshot of it all could nearly be expressed in a perversion of Roland's great line in the Chanson: 'Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores.'
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.
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The only non-Christians who seemed to me really to know anything were the Romantics; and a good many of them were dangerously tinged with something like religion, even at times with Christianity. The upshot of it all could nearly be expressed in a perversion of Roland's great line in the Chanson: 'Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores.'
