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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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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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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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