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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
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
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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 real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
Christopher Morley
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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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.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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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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The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
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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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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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.
Christopher Morley
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Christopher Morley
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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