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The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean out of his mind, so that neither then nor at any oth...more

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I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.

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He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

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The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evi...more

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For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy rela...more

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The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familia...more

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Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is...more

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I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were really people like you. Yet there you are.

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I beg readers to remember that this is a fantasy. It has of course - or I intended it to have - a moral. But the transmortal conditions are solely an ...more

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this is a book about something

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As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect after being under water. His clothes were...more

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Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you....more

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I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions d...more