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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. – G.K. Chesterton

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Fairy Tales
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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. – G.K. Chesterton

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

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The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. – William Gass, “Habitations of the Word,” Kenyon Review, October 1984

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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. – Orson Scott Card

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No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. – Van Wyck Brooks

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