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It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so — Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can b — Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction — for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact — it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth its wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is th — G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
Free verse is like free love — it is a contradiction in terms.
You say you are a poet of law — I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero — but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent. — Christopher Hitchens
A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it — G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules — it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
She was shocked when she followed her aunt and cousin down into the city proper. The streets were crawling with people, — Lillian White, The Mill Owner's Son: Ellen's Story
...he was past youth, but had not reachedmiddle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five. I felt no fear of him,and but litt — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many ti — for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
If you leave off looking at books about beasts and men, if you begin to look at beasts and men then (if you have any hum — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
I felt in my bones; first, that this world does not explain itself. It may be a miracle with a supernatural explanation; — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
The criminal is the creative artist — the detective only the critic.
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity. — G.K. Chesterton