Friday, March 19, 2010

The courage of our imperfections

This morning's article about G.K. Chesterton's visit to Holy Cross reminded me of my one of my mother's favorite quotes:
"Anything worth doing is worth doing badly."
Posted by Karl Hakkarainen at 7:31 AM

1 comment:

unbob said...

Chesterton must be in the air. I looked him up after handing a Chesterton quote to a cheese-phobic coworker ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese") and realizing I thought I ought to know more about Chesterton. I'd heard a number of people drop his name over the years (I think, among other things, Utah Phillips quoted some of his poetry).

But. . .I had also just seen Lanford Wilson's Book of Days where GB Shaw was something of an implicit character and (in retrospect) aspects of Chesterton had been incorporated into one of the other characters (Bobby Grove, to be specific - although GKC has a much more pervasive sense of humor). (BTW, I highly recommend Book of Days. See it if it comes around.)

And then I got mail a coupla days later from a friend who'd also been wikiing Chesterton. And I'm guessing he wasn't motivated by this 80th anniversay thang.

1:30 PM

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