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C.S. Lewis
“Is this simply because the majority are hide-bound? I think not. They have a good reason for their conservatism. Novelty, simply as such, can have only an entertainment value. And they don’t go to church to be entertained. They go to use the service, or, if you prefer, to enact it. Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we receive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore.”
C.S. Lewis, Novels and Stories: The Nine Titles Include: Letters to Malcolm; The Dark Tower; Till We Have Faces; The Screwtape Letters; ... Hideous Strength; and The Pilgrim's Regress

C.S. Lewis
“Equality (outside mathematics) is a purely social conception. It applies to man as a political and economic animal. It has no place in the world of the mind. Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many, more to the persistent and disciplined seekers than to the careless. Virtue is not democratic; she is achieved by those who pursue her more hotly than most men. Truth is not democratic; she demands special talents and special industry in those to whom she gives her favours. Political democracy is doomed if it tries to extend its demand for equality into these higher spheres. Ethical, intellectual, or aesthetic democracy is death.”
C.S. Lewis, Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays

G.K. Chesterton
“The old epic poets at least knew how to tell a story, possibly a tall story but never a twisted story, never a story tortured out of its own shape to fit theories and philosophies invented centuries afterwards. It would be well if modern investigators could describe their discoveries in the bald narrative style of the earliest travellers, and without any of these long allusive words that are full of irrelevant implication and suggestion. Then we might realise exactly what we do know about the cave-man, or at any rate about the cave.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

G.K. Chesterton
“It was the anti-clerical and agnostic world that was always prophesying the advent of universal peace; it is that world that was, or should have been, abashed and confounded by the advent of universal war. As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

Hilary Mantel
“I will send some people,” he says, “to sort out the kitchens. They will be Italian. It will be violent at first, but then after three weeks it will work.”
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

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