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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
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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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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