"Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Boys Quotes #Names Quotes #Sitting Down Quotes

“The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.”
“The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.”
“I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.”
“Men simply don't understand how women are. They think there's some other kind.”

Source : BABS H. DEAL (1968). “THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN”
“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”

Source : Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) "The Feast of Nemesis"
“The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.”
“I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.”
“Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.”

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