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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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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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G.K. Chesterton
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A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. – G.K. Chesterton

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Apology
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Writing
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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. – Henry Rollins

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Writing

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Writing

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. – Harold Ross

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Writing

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. – Enrique Jardiel Poncela

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Writing

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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Experience

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Victory

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. – Edward Hopper

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Nature

‘Ohana means family — no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten. – Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Lilo & Stitch

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Family