"Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends."

-- C. S. Lewis

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“I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.”
“It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?”

Source : Lian Hearn (2008). “Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori”, p.60, Pan Macmillan
“I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.”

Source : Opening Statement on Mars Hill Forum at Unitarian Church, Monclair, New Jersey, www.mars-hill-forum.com. January 11, 1997.
“Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the dark place. Our humiliations and secret fears and deepest anxieties, those times where we were at our worst: that's the best material.”
“Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”

Source : "V.S. NAIPAUL : Wanderer Of Endless Curiosity" by R.Z. Sheppard, content.time.com. July 10, 1989.
“Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.”
“Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals.”

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