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thoughtkick · 7 months
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Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.
C.S. Lewis
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resqectable · 29 days
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Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.
C.S. Lewis
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petaltexturedskies · 3 months
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C.S. Lewis, from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
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surqrised · 3 months
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Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.
C.S. Lewis
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wedarkacademia · 3 months
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goldenvulpine · 1 year
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Yearly Reminder that C.S Lewis encouraged his fans to write fanfiction about Susan Pevensie becoming a friend to Narnia and reuniting with her family once again.
Literally inviting his fans to write Susan’s adult, angsty character development with a happy ending.
Do your duty fans. Write that fanfiction.
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stay-close · 2 months
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You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
C.S. Lewis
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I've never seen a normal post about C.S. Lewis and JRR Tolkien it's always just like: Tolkien once murdered someone and Lewis helped him bury the body but he wore a Santa costume just to spite him
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thehopefulquotes · 5 months
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Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.
C.S. Lewis
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copper-leaf · 7 months
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I found this quote from Diana Wynne Jones (Author of novels Howl's Moving Castle and Castle in the Air) on her time at Oxford when she had C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as professors and I thought I couldn't relate to Jrrt any more than I already did but I've been proven wrong.
"[C. S. Lewis] was just a marvelous lecturer: he made the dullest topics absolutely shine. He lectured in the very largest of lecture halls, which was a huge “L” shape, and it was packed, with people standing in the aisles, even early in the morning. Everybody drank it in. Obviously a whole lot of people took this away and thought about it, and began writing - mostly for children because in those days you couldn’t write fantasy for anyone else.     Tolkien was a different matter. He was just a kind of eminence grise and a legend. You couldn’t hear him lecture. He worked at not letting you hear, because he wanted to go away and finish writing The Lord of the Rings. So he had the very smallest lecture room. First of all it was packed out, so he spoke with his back to the audience and mumbling. Unfortunately he was talking about - meditating on, really - what a plot is like and how it mutates into other plots, and this I found so fascinating that I went back the next week as did one other person. And this meant that he couldn’t stop lecturing and still get the money, which apparently in those days you could if no one turned up - it was a dreadful racket, really. He could have given just the one lecture and then been paid for a term if we’d all stayed away. But this other person and I attended diligently week after week, so he was forced to go on meditating about plots mutating, and what I could hear was fascinating, because he was busy with the really large orchestration of the latter part of The Lord of the Rings at the time. But all I retain is a sense of how marvelous the way plots work is. That was all I got out of it, but I kept going in case I might understand a bit more next week - let alone hear a bit more."
    (Quoted from “Interview with Diana Wynne Jones, 22 March 2001, conducted by Charles Butler.”)
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perfectfeelings · 5 months
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.
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jomarchswritingjacket · 7 months
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who wrote you into existence and what makes you think so? tell me in the tags or comments!
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resqectable · 11 days
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You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
C.S. Lewis
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thoughtkick · 4 months
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
C.S. Lewis
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shisasan · 9 months
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C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces [originally published 1956]
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allieinarden · 3 months
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Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body different from one another and each contributing what no other could. When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things. On the other hand, when you are tempted not to bother about someone else’s troubles because they are ‘no business of yours,’ remember that though he is different from you he is part of the same organism as you. If you forget that he belongs to the same organism as yourself you will become an individualist. If you forget that he is a different organ from you, if you want to suppress differences and make people all alike, you will become a Totalitarian. But a Christian must not be either a Totalitarian or an Individualist. I feel a strong desire to tell you—and I expect you feel a strong desire to tell me—which of these two errors is the worse. That is the devil getting at us. He always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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