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Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
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 greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
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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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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
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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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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
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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 theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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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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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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