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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
Pennsylvania
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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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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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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