Man is more himself more manlike when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.
G.K. Chesterton
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People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.
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Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.
- G.K. Chesterton