C. S. Lewis Quotes

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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I don't want to get fat.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
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We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change our world and to make our world a better place.
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I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
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Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canadian Indians: 'I've told you what a foul decadent lazy crowd they are & what I think of them !! But this camp is pitched right inside an Indian reserve … & we have hundreds of the mouldy local tribe camped around us' (6 October 1919)
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All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
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Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
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I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
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Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.
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Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
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We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.
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I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves...
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I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.
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Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.
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Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.