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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
Travel
Language
Men
Life
Insightful
Foreign

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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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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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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 is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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 everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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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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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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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 courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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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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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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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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