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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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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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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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 most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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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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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
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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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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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The plural of spouse is spice.
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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