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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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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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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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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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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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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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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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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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