“As to Macarthur, I don't feel in a position to have clear op…”

“As to Macarthur, I don't feel in a position to have clear opinions about anyone I know only from newspapers. You see, whenever they deal with anyone (or anything) I know myself, I find they're always a mass of lies & misunderstandings: so I conclude they're no better in the places where I don't know.”

— C. S. Lewis

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Title: Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis
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Context

Letter to Mrs. Mary Van Deusen (30 April 1951); in Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, vol. 3: "Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950-1963", p. 114

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Lewis, C. S.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

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