The only non-Christians who seemed to me really to know anything were the Romantics; and a good many of them were dangerously tinged with something l… - C. S. Lewis

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The only non-Christians who seemed to me really to know anything were the Romantics; and a good many of them were dangerously tinged with something like religion, even at times with Christianity. The upshot of it all could nearly be expressed in a perversion of Roland's great line in the Chanson: 'Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores.'

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About C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was an Irish author, scholar of medieval literature, and Christian apologist. He is best known for his essays on Christianity and for the children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Birth Name: Clive Staples Lewis
Alternative Names: Clive Hamilton • N. W. Clerk • CS Lewis • C.S. Lewis • Clive Lewis • Nat Whilk
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