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- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: english
- Born: September 19, 1911
- Died: June 19, 1993
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The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty.- The Illustrated London News, July 10, 1920 Issue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton