/lit/ - Literature

Start with Heretics, it's his first major essay collection and it's kind of the beginnings of his public thought.

download the chesterton collection for 2 dollars on kindle and read the whole thing in order.

Could someone help me locate a quote by Chesterton?
Borges quotes him saying
>Everything passes, but all we're left with is wonder
>("todo pasa, pero siempre nos queda el asombro")

The closest I've been able to find, in meaning, is “The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.” Not sure if they're the same quote.

>>15630810
There are some quotes out there which are attributed to Chesterton, but which he didn't actually say. Or, at least, he didn't say them exactly, but he said essentially the same thing but not as concisely or pithily.

Like that famous line:

>When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing; he believes in everything.

It's often attributed to Chesterton, but he did not actually say it. At least, he didn't say it exactly. He said essentially the same thing over the course of a paragraph, but he didn't say that specific line.

On the other hand, Borges would probably have a better memory for this sort of thing than I would, so he's probably in the right.

>>15630838
Yeah, I'm translating a 20 page interview of Borges and his memory is so astonishing it's painful to translate him so poorly.

>>15629973
How do I get his hairstyle

>>15630878
A metric ton of butter and oil fats.

>>15630893
Also, pure genetics. Some people win the hair lottery and some do not.

>>15629973
In Defense of Sanity is a good collection of essays. What's Wrong with the World is more in-depth and I'd recommend reading it second.