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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

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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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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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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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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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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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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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
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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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