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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
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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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.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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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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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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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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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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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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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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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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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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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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