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C S Lewis

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an Irish author and scholar of mixed Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry.. novelist poet academic medievalist literary critic essayist lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast


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Quote Left There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth Quote Right
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Quote Left Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither Quote Right
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Quote Left You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read. Quote Right
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Quote Left The absent are easily refuted Quote Right
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Quote Left When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things