A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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  2. I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. - Leo Tolstoy

  3. People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters. - Cassandra Clare

  4. The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers. - Rachel Vincent

  5. I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one. - Viktor E. Frankl

More Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton
  1. Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

  2. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

  3. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

  4. A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

  5. Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

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