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“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

People Thinking World Trying Ends Seems Might Views Half Imagine This World Building Comfort Comfortable Regard Prison Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hotel Pessimist Other Half

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being”

Ifs Wells Ends Age Challenges Development Comfortable Well Being Contentment Adverse

Book:The Culture of Contentment

Source: The Culture of Contentment

“Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.”

Should Doe Art Ends Artist Given Class Poverty Middle Becoming Comfortable Training Should Have Complaining Middle Class

Book:A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

“I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.”

Ends Song Written Havens Comfortable Albums

Author:Kylie Minogue

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