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Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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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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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
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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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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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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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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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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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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
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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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