Quote by G.K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel te

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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Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. – 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

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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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An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. – Juvenal, Satires

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A metaphor is like a simile. – Author Unknown

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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. – Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. – Rita Mae Brown

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Plough deep while sluggards sleep. – Benjamin Franklin

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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. – Eberhard Arnold

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