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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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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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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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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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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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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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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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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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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