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- Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Taken Care Of ,1965
- Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.
- Rhys Alexander, Writing Gooder, 12-09-05
- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_s_lewis.html
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-06-05
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