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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
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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White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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All things are from God and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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The true object of human life is play.
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Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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