What is Chesterton?

  • (noun): Conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936).
    Synonyms: G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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    “All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
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    “The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.”
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