C. S. Lewis Quotes
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
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My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute!
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You must warn people not to make the intellect their God. The intellect knows methods but it seldom knows values, and they come from feeling. If one doesn't play a part in the creative whole, he is not worth being called human. He has betrayed his true purpose.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
