Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
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Art is limitation the essence of every picture is the frame.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, 'charm', 'spell', 'enchantment'. Theyexpress the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Poets do not go mad but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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