C. S. Lewis Quotes
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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Most fan have been like, "You're a monster, you give me nightmares, don't talk to me."
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Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
