Sometimes, though not often in meetings of the Inklings, it would happen that no one had anything to read to us. On these occasions the fun would be riotous, with Jack at the top of his form and enjoying every minute 'no sound delights me more', he once said, 'than male laughter'. At the Inklings his talk was an outpouring of wit, nonsense, whimsy, dialectical swordplay, and pungent judgement such as I have rarely heard equalled no mere show put on for the occasion, either, since it was often quite as brilliant when he and I were alone together.... In his Preface to Essays Presented to Charles Williams, Jack gave a lively and moving account of what this circle meant to him. (Clive Staples
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She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. (Clive StaplesJack) Lewis
To love at all is to be vulnerable. (Clive Staples
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As all his friends will bear witness, he was a man with an outstanding gift for pastime with good company, for laughter and the love of friends a gift which found full scope in any number of holidays and walking tours, the joyous character of his response to these being well conveyed in his letters. He had, indeed, a remarkable talent for friendship, particularly for friendship of an uproarious kind, and argumentative but never quarrelsome. (Clive Staples
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The faint, far-off results of those energies which God's creative rapture implanted in matter when He made the worlds are what we now call physical pleasures and even thus filtered, they are too much for our present management. What would it be to taste at the fountainhead of that stream of which even these lower reaches prove so intoxicating Yet that, I believe, is what lies before us. As St. Augustine said, the rapture of the saved soul will 'flow over' into the glorified body. In the light of our present specialized and depraved appetites, we cannot imagine this torrent of pleasure, and I warn everyone most seriously not to try. But it must be mentioned, to drive out thoughts even more misleading thoughts that what is saved is a mere ghost, or that the risen body lives in numb insensibility. The body is made for the Lord, and these dismal fancies are wide of the mark. (Clive Staples
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The chief end of man, as I see it, is to find security, have liberty to express his abilities, enjoy the love of family and friends, and to secure recognition of his talents, to worship God in his own way, and to participate in a government that will protect him in his exercise of these liberties, and by education and training in the development of the arts and sciences, and the techniques of their application, help him to find his proper place in the scheme of things. (Clive Staples
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If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty but the chair does look empty, therefore there is an invisible cat in it. (Clive Staples
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