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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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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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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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