Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quote

Quote from Gilbert Keith Chesterton,

"Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age."

By:	Gilbert Keith Chesterton (more quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton or books by/about Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
	(1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist
Source:	Illustrated London News, 1922
Categories:	Free Thought, Media, Press, Science
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