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NOVELISTS > essayist, novelist, journalist, poet > G K Chesterton
It is not...
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. . . . Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Source: All Things Considered, Spiritualism (1908).
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936), English essayist, novelist, journalist, poet; He is noted for the detective series with sleuth Father Brown.