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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

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
Life
Insightful
Foreign
Travel
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Men

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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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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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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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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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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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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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Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
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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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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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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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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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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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