G. K. Chesterton
writer · critic · London, England · 1874–1936
An English writer who turned out newspaper columns, criticism and detective stories without pause, and loved a paradox. He is also known for the Father Brown stories, about a priest who solves crimes.
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1910 · The closing sentence of a chapter that takes the side of the amateur who does many things with her own hands, badly, against the specialist who does one thing well
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
What's Wrong with the World, part 4, chapter 14
1 in 100 Billion · The social network of those who came before us