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>turns a phrase in your path
Is there a more quotable writer?

>> No.14715591
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Of all the many things Chesterton was good at, what does /lit/ think he was BEST at?

I think he was best as an essayist. Short story writer comes in a close second, but I think his essays are by far his best stuff.

>> No.14715606

>>14715553
Can’t think of a single thing he’s said.

>>14715591
Doughnut eating. Packed away the doughnuts like an American, he did.

>> No.14715637

>>14715606
it's like you want people to hate you

>> No.14715644
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I read the man who was Thursday because of deus ex.

>> No.14715652

>>14715591
i think lewis' essays kept a lot better. chesterton's short stories are still pretty charming.

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>>14715553
Just like my Japanese animes

>> No.14715669

>>14715637
She does. She's a masochistic narcissist, a wilfully ignorant middle aged dyke who spends her spare time getting insulted by autists half her age on a literature board, her fat crusty clit quivering with every (You). Ignore.

>> No.14715736

>>14715591
His essays are great, especially his essay about everyday thing. Like his detective stories the most though. Extra comfy.

>> No.14715760

>>14715606
Nobody who wastes hours on here can be that good of writer.

>> No.14715816

>>14715553
Dissecting the ills of his society without coming off as a pompous ass.

>> No.14715875

>>14715669
kekd

>> No.14716034

>>14715553
What an ugly deer-in-the-headlights mug.

>> No.14716053

>>14715637
It’s actually that I don’t care if Chesterton fan hate me. What quotes? Prove his worth already. Where’s the substance to this thread?

>>14715669
Stop thinking about my genitalia, please.

>>14715760
Not even for what they read? You strike a chord.

>> No.14716121

>>14716053
You might enjoy "The Man Who Was Thursday" - a short thriller novel involving an underground anarchist group. Chesterton was a brilliant prose stylist, and massively influenced writers like Borges.

>> No.14716136

>>14715553
How do I get a hair like him?

>> No.14716161

>>14715591
Cheese essay

>> No.14716193

>>14716161
Cheese is unironically the greatest food the English make. All their actual cooked stuff is fucking garbage, but they do make some excellent cheeses.

>> No.14716206

>>14716193
What about baked faggots?

>> No.14716211

>>14716053
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” ― G.K. Chesterton

>> No.14716227

>>14716211
based as fuck

>> No.14716248

>>14716053
I have my own little notions of the possible emancipation of women; but I suppose I should not be taken very seriously if I propounded them. I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman, as I have said, is a despot; the average man is a serf. I am for any scheme that any one can suggest that will make the average woman more of a despot. So far from wishing her to get her cooked meals from outside, I should like her to cook more wildly and at her own will than she does. So far from getting always the same meals from the same place, let her invent, if she likes, a new dish every day of her life. Let woman be more of a maker, not less. We are right to talk about "Woman;" only blackguards talk about women. Yet all men talk about men, and that is the whole difference. Men represent the deliberative and democratic element in life. Woman represents the despotic.- G.K. Chesterton

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>>14715553
Paraphrasing Chesterton's ideas is sincerely a great way to make yourself look clever and experienced

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DISTRIBUTE THE COWS
EVERY MAN A CHEESE-MONGER

>> No.14717407

>>14716364
he cute