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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

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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
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Grown
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Kids
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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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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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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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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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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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 courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
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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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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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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 plural of spouse is spice.
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Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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