Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
book winning years
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.
book errors hunger
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.
new-york cities literature
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
country book needs
That's what this country needs -- more books!
everlasting fascinating corners
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
political slumps commodity
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
christian anxiety bears
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
students
All students can learn.
men violence faults
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
literature sinner
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
book library may
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
men thinking today
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.
decision choices finding-yourself
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
life prayer war
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.