C. S. Lewis Quotes
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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People trash talk me.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.
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In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does.
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I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.
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Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
