 “ If one has to choose between reading the new Books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful. ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“ If they won - t write the kind of Books we want to read, we shall have to write them ourselves... ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“ If they won't write the kind of Books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves. ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“ Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong Books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons. ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“ Our experience is coloured through and through by Books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves. ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“ The Books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through was longing... For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“ The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern Books on Platonism. ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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Inspiring Quotes : |
“ Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish Books were blamed when children for reading Books too old for us. ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“ What we want is not more little Books about Christianity, but more little Books by Christians on other subjects with their Christianity latent. ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“ Books are cold but safe friends. ” ~ Victor Hugo
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“ England has two Books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. ” ~ Victor Hugo
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“ He was fond of Books, for they are cool and sure friends. ” ~ Victor Hugo
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“ It is from Books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. ” ~ Victor Hugo
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“ Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ” ~ William Butler Yeats
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“ I wanted to read all these Books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that (p. 37, Chronicles, Vol. One). ” ~ Bob Dylan
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“ In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read Books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. ” ~ Bob Dylan
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“ People talk of situations, read Books, repeat quotations. ” ~ Bob Dylan
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“ Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. ” ~ Edward Gibbon
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“ Writing Books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing Books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the Books. ” ~ George Carlin
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“ I conceive a knowledge of Books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built. ” ~ George Washington
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