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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!
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
Motto
Entertaining
Fun
Though
Seems
Even
Unconquerable
Make
Slay
Men
Helplessness
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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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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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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
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