Charles

“All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour. One”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.” So”
― Howard Marks, The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor

“Your business is to fix his attention on the stream. Teach him to call it ‘real life’ and don’t let him ask what he means by ‘real’. Remember,”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Once he was in the street the battle was won. I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past, and before he reached the bottom of the steps I had got into him an unalterable conviction that, whatever odd ideas might come into a man’s head when he was shut up alone with his books, a healthy dose of ‘real life’ (by which he meant the bus and the newsboy) was enough to show him that all ‘that sort of thing’ just couldn’t be true.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters