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  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #2
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

  • #3
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #4
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #5
    G.K. Chesterton
    “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #6
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #7
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

  • #8
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #9
    G.K. Chesterton
    “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #10
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #11
    G.K. Chesterton
    “It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #12
    G.K. Chesterton
    “It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #13
    G.K. Chesterton
    “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #14
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #16
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #17
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

  • #18
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #19
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
    G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

  • #20
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

  • #21
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #22
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #23
    G.K. Chesterton
    “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #24
    G.K. Chesterton
    “If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #25
    G.K. Chesterton
    “We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #26
    G.K. Chesterton
    “I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
    G.K. Chesterton
    tags: golf

  • #27
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #28
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

  • #29
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

  • #30
    G.K. Chesterton
    “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
    G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

  • #31
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
    G.K. Chesterton



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