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"I've had great success being a total idiot. "
— Jerry Lewis
— Jerry Lewis
"Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else."
— C.S. Lewis
— C.S. Lewis
"They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century."
— Douglas Gresham
— Douglas Gresham
""All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.""
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
"My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with."
— C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian)
— C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian)
""In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity"
— C.S. Lewis
— C.S. Lewis
""Who ARE You?"
"This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly,
`I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."
"
— Lewis Carrol
"This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly,
`I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."
"
— Lewis Carrol
"I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)
"'And how do you know that you're mad?'
'To begin with,' said the cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant that?'
'I suppose so,' said Alice.
'Well then,' the cat went on, 'you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tale when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.'"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)
'To begin with,' said the cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant that?'
'I suppose so,' said Alice.
'Well then,' the cat went on, 'you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tale when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.'"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)
""Don't you want that after you Die, will be someone that really know you?"
-"No, I want them to belive in my version".
"
— Inspector morse talking with sargent lewis
-"No, I want them to belive in my version".
"
— Inspector morse talking with sargent lewis
"The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!""
— Lewis Carrol (Alice Through the Looking-Glass)
— Lewis Carrol (Alice Through the Looking-Glass)
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