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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. - G.K.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. – G.K. Chesterton

Other quotes by G.K. Chesterton

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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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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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? – G.K. Chesterton

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Failure
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I dont believe in art. I believe in artists. – Marcel Duchamp

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I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. – Nelson Mandela

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Francis Bacon

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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, then what do we do? – David Foster Wallace

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But I now entered on my fifteenth year – a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. – Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Use it or lose it. – Jimmy Connors

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