"Those of us who are blamed when..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
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“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."”
“You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.”
“I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.”
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“If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.”
“The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.”
“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 would advise him to read the old.”
More on Books
“Books are a narcotic.”
“I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and some interviews with ex-band members. Like [Keith] Richards's book "Life," it's brutally honest.”
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”