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CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Without fear there cannot be courage. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real cour... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Children see magic because they look for it. CHRISTOPHER MOORE Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack firs... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked.No, but it's very... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks c... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks. CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, mos... CHRISTOPHER HOPPER He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ... CHRISTOPHER LASCH The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. CHRISTOPHER LASCH We need to distinguish between nostalgia and the reassuring memory of happy times, which serves to l... CHRISTOPHER LASCH I sometimes think His critical judgement is so exquisite It leaves us nothing to admire except... CHRISTOPHER FRY Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the soci... CHRISTOPHER LASCH I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a p... CHRISTOPHER ORLET Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy... CHRISTOPHER RICKS Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us... CHRISTOPHER LASCH I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I lo... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who ... CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile. CHRISTOPHER REEVE