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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 ...more

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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading.

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the s...more

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By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

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No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

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Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I ...more

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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line c...more

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A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

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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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Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need th...more

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Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.