Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ✨ Defendant (1901) Def…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ✨ Defendant (1901) Defence of Penny Dreadfuls
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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.6, Simon and Schuster
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do? ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.209, Simon and Schuster
To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert … ▶

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