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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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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Education
Reading
Inspirational
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Book
Ink
Whole
Glue
Men
Sell
Life
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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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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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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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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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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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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