Tag: C. S. Lewis
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We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.
C. S. Lewis
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
C. S. Lewis
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
C. S. Lewis
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
C. S. Lewis
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. Lewis
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Writing is like a ‘lust,’ or like ‘scratching when you itch.’ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
C. S. Lewis
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. Lewis