A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author
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A selected quote by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important
Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me
... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced