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Quote DB :: Authors :: C.S. Lewis :: View Quote View Quote "Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite." - Copy to Clipboard   --  C.S. Lewis Listed in: Writing Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.75  Rate Quote 8 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from C.S. Lewis "Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience." "Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all." "Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief." "Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased." "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." Top 5 quotes from Writing "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." "Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man." "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." "Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." "Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

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