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Stories Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more…
- All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the…
- [There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy,…
- The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough…
- I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under…
- The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.
- Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
- The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children…
- With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
- A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead…
- For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their…
- I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls…
- I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
- I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
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- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
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- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
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- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe