It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.Gilbert K. Chesterton
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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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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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
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