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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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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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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
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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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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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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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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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The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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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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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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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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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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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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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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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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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