C. S. Lewis Quotes

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

C. S. Lewis

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• I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

  

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• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

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• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

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• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  

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• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

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• And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

  

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• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

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• One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.

  

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• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

  

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• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

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• It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Death