C. S. Lewis Quotes
Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.
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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.
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I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew up thinking were the perfect families who kept it together... all their secrets would come out, and it'd be something dark and disgusting beneath the surface, so I wanted to exploit that.
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.
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Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.
