Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
G.K. Chesterton in Heretics (1905)
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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