Shadowlands Quotes with Sound Clips - page 4

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Sound bites of the best quotes from the 1993 film Shadowlands.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)

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31 Female guest admitted between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. -We're legal.

Joy Davidman (Debra Winger), C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

32 Is it the courtly ideal of love? -What is that? What is its one essential quality? -Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in the desiring.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

33 It's pagan. It's vulgar. It's all faintly silly, but it works. -Sunrise always works.

Joy Davidman (Debra Winger), C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

34 Life must go on. -I don't know that it must, but it certainly does.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

35 So, what do you do here? Think great thoughts? -Teach, mainly.

Joy Davidman (Debra Winger), C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

36 The delight that never fades... The bliss that is eternal is only yours when what you most desire is just out of reach.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

37 We read to know we're not alone.
38 We wouldn't happen to have any cranberry sauce, would we? -Cranberry sauce? -Yes. -What's that? -Well, my guess is, it's a sauce made from cranberries.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

39 We're not the creator. -No, we're the creatures, aren't we? We're the rats in the cosmic laboratory. I've no doubt that the experiment is for our own good, but that still makes God the vivisectionist, doesn't it?

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

40 Well, I mean, back in '38, it seemed to me there was only two choices. Either you were a fascist, and you conquered the world, or you were a communist and you saved it.

Joy Davidman (Debra Winger)

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