"Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse."

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"Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse."

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years."

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"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong."

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"Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves."

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"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."

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