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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
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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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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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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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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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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Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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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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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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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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