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dduane · 6 months
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“In my own first story I had described at length what I thought a rather fine high tea given by a hospitable faun to the little girl who was my heroine. A man, who has children of his own, said, ‘Ah, I see how you got to that. If you want to please grown-up readers you give them sex, so you thought to yourself, “That won’t do for children, what shall I give them instead? I know! The little blighters like plenty of good eating.” In reality, however, I myself like eating and drinking. I put in what I would have liked to read when I was a child and what I still like reading now that I am in my fifties.” —C. S. Lewis, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children”
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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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To be eaten and to be married to the god might not be so different.
C. S. Lewis, from ‘Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold’
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writtenforthesoul · 1 year
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Płacz trochę pomaga – dopóki się płacze. Ale w końcu, wcześniej czy później, trzeba przestać płakać, a wtedy trzeba się zdecydować, co robić dalej.
C. S. Lewis, „Opowieści z Narnii. Srebrne krzesło”
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thoughtkick · 8 months
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis
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resqectable · 4 months
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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surqrised · 4 months
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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eternal-echoes · 1 year
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"It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God."
- C.S. Lewis
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nightlyquotes · 8 months
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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perfectquote · 1 year
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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philosophors · 7 months
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“The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.”
— C. S. Lewis
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dduane · 5 months
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Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?
...Too frequently we get only bits and pieces of this core quote from C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces—not the whole thing; and sometimes (in at least a couple of online quote sources) mistranscribed from its original, with words changed or dropped out. it''s long past time to post it correctly and in its entirety.
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floridianfireflyfaith · 3 months
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derangedrhythms · 10 months
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Now mark yet again the cruelty of the gods. There is no escape from them into sleep or madness, for they can pursue you into them with dreams. Indeed you are then most at their mercy. The nearest thing we have to a defence against them (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one. 
C. S. Lewis, from ‘Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold’
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quotemadness · 1 year
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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lady-merian · 3 months
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on Reepicheep and his character arc.
Reepicheep wants to be valiant. More than that, he wants to be seen as valiant. It ties to his personal honor. Never more clear than at this scene:
Aslan: I have sometimes wondered, friend, whether you do not think too much about your honor.  Reepicheep: Highest of all High Kings, permit me to remind you that a very small size has been bestowed on us Mice, and if we did not guard our dignity, some (who weigh worth by inches) would allow themselves very unsuitable pleasantries at our expense.
And to be fair it’s quite true that the mice are constantly underestimated. But it is not this which convinces Aslan to restore Reepicheep’s tail, it is both because of their ancestor’s actions (chewing the cords which bound Aslan to the stone table) and Reepicheep’s followers’ willingness to go without their own tails, not taking an honor denied to their chief.
I think his desire to be valiant (more than wanting to be noticed as being valiant) actually comes from a desire to be like Aslan. Earlier in his arc I think this virtue was twisted into pride, but at the least I think that begins to be transformed by his encounter with Aslan at the end of Prince Caspian. As his arc progresses, he gradually lets go of the need for others to see it (culminating in his throwing his sword away, as well as allowing Lucy to cuddle him when they say farewell, something he would never have allowed in Prince Caspian). Last time I reread The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I nearly cried at the contrast in how he treated the giants in Prince Caspian to how he comforted Eustace under the dragon enchantment. Eustace, who as a cowardly boy had insulted him worse than the giants ever did. Just… Reepicheep and his character arc.
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