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The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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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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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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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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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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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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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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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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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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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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