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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. – G.K. Chesterton

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. – Lord Byron

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When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. – Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947

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It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation. – Samuel Johnson, 1751

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