Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

-- C.S. Lewis

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

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It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests.

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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. Unless, of course, you can literally believe all that stuff about family reunions 'on the further shore,' pictured in entirely earthly terms. But that is all unscriptural, all out of bad hymns and lithographs. There's not a word of it in the Bible. And it rings false. We

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Experience is a brutal teacher. But you'll learn..my god, you will learn.

-- C.S. Lewis

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