"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
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― Gilbert K. Chesterton
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- "Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
- "Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."
- "Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."
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- "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."― C. S. Lewis
- "Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"― Paul Cezanne
- "I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."― Jim Morrison