Sunday, June 08, 2008

How it gets harder to be entertained the older we get...

From British journalist and brilliant writer G.K. Chesterton:

“When we are very young children we do not need fairy tales: we only need tales. Mere life is interesting enough. A child of seven is excited by being told that Tommy opened the door and saw a dragon. But a child of three is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door.”

From page 47 of his book Orthodoxy.

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