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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.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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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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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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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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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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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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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