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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
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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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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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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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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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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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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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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