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G. K. Chesterton argued that fairy tales do not introduce children to fear or darkness. Long before hearing stories, children already sense that the world contains danger, mystery, and things that may threaten them.
“All real democracy is an attempt…to bring the shy people out.”
— #GKChesterton, winningly quoted by Hélène Landemore @hlandemore.bsky.social in Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule, on #CitizensAssembly, aka to ancient Greeks as #Sortition: news.yale.edu/2026/02/18/b... #booksky
All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful moment we remember that we forget."
- #GKChesterton
#GKCHESTERTON ON REMEMBERING THAT WE FORGET
"Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Real mystics don’t hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when you’ve seen it, it is still a mystery.
- #GKChesterton
This is not to say that stories need no internal consistency, but that consistency may bear no resemblance to the real world. There are no rules until the castle is built and generates its own laws of physics.
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Hello, Feel-Good Friday!
What gratitude today helps you walk with grace?
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
#GKChesterton
Gratitude adds grace to every step. 🌟
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
- #GKChesterton
Evening Chesterton: \"The world is not to be solved like a puzzle, but enjoyed as a mystery.\" Surprise with humility, gratitude over cynicism. What wonder(ed) you today? 🌌 #GKChesterton #Paradox #Bluesky
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Poeh, ik moet zeggen dat ik zelden zo’n ingewikkeld boek heb gelezen. Wel mooie dingen opgepikt.
Wist je dat Chesterton de geestelijk vader van Father Brown is?
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#Tyranny always enters by the unguarded gate.
- #GKChesterton
We men and women are all in the same boat upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.
- #GKChesterton
Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.”
- #GKChesterton
There are still a few tickets for Friday 1/2 and Saturday 1/3!
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From G. K. Chesterton's "The Dagger with Wings"
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‘Margaret Seymour Carpenter was the writer of the novel Experiment Perilous, a New York Times Bestseller in 1943. The novel was produced by RKO Radio Pictures as a film of the same name, Experiment Perilous, starring Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, and Paul Lukas.’ Wikipedia ‘James Lewicki was a 20th-century American artist and illustrator who worked for many of the magazines of his day and extensively for Life magazine.’ Wikipedia full issue at https://archive.org/details/colliersmagazine
#THISWEEK in 1949
‘The Pasteboard Star by Margaret Carpenter [1893-1987]’
Illustrated by James Lewicki (1917-1979)
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‘Ten Christmas Classics’ *Collier's–Christmas Annual* Dec. 24, 1949
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full issue at https://archive.org/details/colliersmagazine ‘Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics, such as his works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. ‘Wikipedia ON FRANK LACANO: https://ramblefishing.blogspot.com/2007/02/wonderful-art-of-frank-lacano.html https://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2007/02/art-of-inked-line-frank-lacano.html
#THISWEEK in 1949
‘The Christ-Child by G. K. Chesterton [1874-1936]’
Decoration by Frank Lacano
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‘Ten Christmas Classics’ *Collier's – Christmas Annual* December 24, 1949
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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we."
- #GKChesterton
#GKCHESTERTON ON THE ETERNAL APPETITE
"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS CLOWNS runs through January 4th.
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The reviews have started rolling in!
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The world will never lack wonders; what it lacks is wonder. We grow blind not because the light is dim, but because we forget to look. The moment a man learns to marvel again, he steps back into the richness of reality.
- #GKChesterton
This 1936 #ChildrensBook was a #fundraiser for the #PrincessElizabethofYorkHospital in #London. #Stories by many #British #authors. #B&W #illustrations and seven stunning #ColourPlates. $40. #Booksky #QueenElizabethII #JMBarrie #RudyardKipling #GKChesterton #AlgernonBlackwood #HughWalpole
"What is wrong with the world?" 🌍
G.K. Chesterton had the answer: "I am."
In a 1905 letter, he argued that human sin—not external systems—is the root of our problems.
"Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick." 🤢⛵️
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- #GKChesterton
One month until previews start. Do you have your tickets yet? Performances are filling up!
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