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Christopher Morley Inspirational Quotes (61)

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Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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