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Birds
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A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Reading
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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Reading
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Boredom
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A yawn is a silent shout.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Children
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Religion
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Chastity
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Style
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Personality
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Terrorism
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
-G. K. Chesterton
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