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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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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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The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
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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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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
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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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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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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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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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