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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
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Errors
Hunger
Human
Humans
Book
Refutes
Thing
Abstractly
Good
Meets
Error

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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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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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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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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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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
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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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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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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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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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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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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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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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