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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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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Truth
Disguises
Disguise
Fantastic
Safety
Prepared
Hours

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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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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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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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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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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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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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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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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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