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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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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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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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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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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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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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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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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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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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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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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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