"A powerful dragon crying its eyes out..." - Quote by C S Lewis
A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.
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“We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.”
“You people have no imagination!”
“It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.”
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“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
“You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!”
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“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?”
“True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.”
“In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”