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The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.
No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
Indonesia is one of the most scary and scared places on earth.
The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.
The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.
Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.
We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?
Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.
This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.
I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew
It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.
You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.
Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.
A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.
It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves.
When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk
When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.
Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.