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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.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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 prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
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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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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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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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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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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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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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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