C. S. Lewis Quotes

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

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• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

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• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  

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• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

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• I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

  

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• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

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• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

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• 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

  

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• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

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• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

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• I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

  

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• I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

  

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• Good design is good business.

  

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• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

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• A successful coach is one who is still coaching.

  

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• Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.

  

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• It’s a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot, For the places and people you're lucky you're not!

  

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• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • True