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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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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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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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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 real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
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It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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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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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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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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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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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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