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“The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.”
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“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.”
― Tales from Earthsea
― Tales from Earthsea
“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
― The Lord of the Rings
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
― The Lord of the Rings
“There's a difference between control and responsibility. Aesthetically and morally, I take full responsibility for what I write. If I didn't, I wouldn't feel free to let the material control itself to the extent I do. I'd have ti manage it consciously and continuously, making everything happen as I planned it to happen. But I never wanted that kind of control. By "going where I have to go," being willing to guess that there is such a place without knowing clearly how I am to get there, trusting my story to take me there, I know I've gone farther than I could ever have gone if I'd fully known my goal and the way to it before I set out. I left room for luck and chance to come and aid me, room for my narrow plans and ideas to grow and include what I didn't know when I set out.”
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Lewis’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lewis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
502 books
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62 friends
209 books
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67 friends
603 books
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36 friends
423 books
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39 friends
227 books
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17 friends
7 books
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14 friends
38 books
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88 friends
811 books
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32 friends
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Art, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Thriller, and Travel
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