The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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