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Quote by G.K. Chesterton
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of sele

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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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

Category:
Curmudgeonesque
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G.K. Chesterton
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – G.K. Chesterton

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Property
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G.K. Chesterton
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. – G.K. Chesterton

Category:
Inner Child
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G.K. Chesterton
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Writing
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Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. – Jerome Stern, Making Shapely Fiction, 1991

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Writing

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath

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Writing

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “All Trivia,” Afterthoughts, 1931

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Writing

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. – Charles Peguy

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Writing

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Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home. – Barbara Corcoran

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Home

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor. – Margaret Cho

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Humor

I cry, sometimes, because Im not 20 years younger, and Im not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics. – Oriana Fallaci

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Politics

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Freedom