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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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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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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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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 real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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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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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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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 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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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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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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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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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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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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