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It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.


C. S. Lewis

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C. S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. LEWIS What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other me...
C. S. LEWIS Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outsi...
C. S. LEWIS You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a...
S. C. GWYNNE Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C. S. FORESTER They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service an...
C. S. FORESTER The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with...
C. S. FORESTER Novel writing wrecks homes.
C. S. FORESTER There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C. S. FORESTER Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
C. S. FORESTER I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together l...
C. S. FORESTER I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes ...
C. S. FORESTER Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Ho...
C. S. FORESTER A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford...
C. S. FORESTER I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. FORESTER The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accor...
C. S. FORESTER When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Mus...
C. S. FORESTER With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her...
C. S. FORESTER There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
C. S. FORESTER A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can alway...
C. S. FORESTER Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!
S. C. HALL There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C. S. ROBINSON What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my d...
S. C. GWYNNE The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and...
C. S. FORESTER There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C S ROBINSON True love makes the imperfect to perfect .... otherwise love is not true.....
BASIL C S We can fight with our destiny ...but one day you should be ready to admit it , surrender to it ........
BASIL C S The Destiny of a good man is to live for self actualization
BASIL C S If Love is not powerful , what else is .......!!!
BASIL C S Get out, you blazing ass! / Gabble o' the goose. Don't bugaboo-baby me!
C. S. CALVERLEY Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY The boy, a bare-legged beggarly son of a gun.
C. S. CALVERLEY I must mention again it was gorgeous weather, / Rhymes are so scarce in this world of ours.
C. S. CALVERLEY Life is with such all beer and skittles; / They are not difficult to please / About their victuals.
C. S. CALVERLEY Meaning, however, is no great matter.
C. S. CALVERLEY