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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.
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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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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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
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The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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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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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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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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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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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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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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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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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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