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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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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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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
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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 evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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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.
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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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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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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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