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Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.


Lewis Gannit

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ALEX LEWIS Everyone sort of got stagnant. We weren't making the best passes that we could. I don't know if it w...
ALEX LEWIS We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've...
ALEX LEWIS They have to keep working and we have to take their lunches over to the pits.
ALEX LEWIS Their food has to be nutritious, high in protect and high in volume. It has to include a choice of f...
ALEX LEWIS What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C.S. LEWIS The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to...
C.S. LEWIS You can make anything by writing.
C.S. LEWIS I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep sile...
C.S. LEWIS It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have re...
C.S. LEWIS Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found...
C.S. LEWIS God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C.S. LEWIS Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you st...
C.S. LEWIS Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as i...
C.S. LEWIS There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. LEWIS No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo...
C.S. LEWIS Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can u...
C.S. LEWIS I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C.S. LEWIS Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C.S. LEWIS A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slight...
C.S. LEWIS Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. LEWIS Nos acercaremos a Dios no con el intento de evitar los sufrimientos inherentes a todos los amores, s...
C.S. LEWIS Hence as the poet says: People in love cannot be moved by kindness, And opposition makes them feel l...
C.S. LEWIS Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It i...
C.S. LEWIS The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the s...
C.S. LEWIS Emerson has said, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive." That is a very doubtful maxim. Better say, "...
C.S. LEWIS For most of us the true rivalry lies between the self and the human Other, not yet between the human...
C.S. LEWIS But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has bee...
C.S. LEWIS I once ventured to say to an old clergyman who was voicing this sort of patriotism, "But, sir, aren'...
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