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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
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Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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