Month: November 2025

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gk Chesterton
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Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction…For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

Gk Chesterton
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Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

Gk Chesterton
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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

Gk Chesterton
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To an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome.

Gk Chesterton
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It has often been said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

Gk Chesterton
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“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”

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

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“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.”

Gk Chesterton
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“They died to save their country and they only saved the world.”

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