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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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. – G.K. Chesterton

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Gratitude
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. – G.K. Chesterton

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Veterans Day
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He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. – John Ray

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Writing

Writing is a struggle against silence. – Carlos Fuentes

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Writing

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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Writing

I try to leave out the parts that people skip. – Elmore Leonard

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If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians. – Neville Marriner

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Chlorine: the breakfast of champions! – Author Unknown

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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. – Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), journal, January 1927

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