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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at leastCocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
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The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything it is he that gets the most out of life.
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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