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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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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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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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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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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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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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