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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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 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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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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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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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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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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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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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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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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