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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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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G.K. Chesterton

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G.K. Chesterton

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. – E.L. Doctorow

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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. – A. Bronson Alcott

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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. – Ray Bradbury

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Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. – Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where Im this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck. – Alexander Wang

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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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