C. S. Lewis Quotes

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

C. S. Lewis

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• Worldliness

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• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

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• If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.

  

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• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

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• I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

  

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• On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

  

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• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  

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• We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

  

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• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

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• Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

  

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• Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

  

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• You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Evil
  • Inspiration
  • Spell