Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
marriage men wife
The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.
media mind afternoon
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
men thinking lust
Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.
philosophy rain people
Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.
book soul special
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.
poetry together groups
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.
literature gideon too-late
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
love friendship people
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.
running book science
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.
birthday children kids
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
god heaven mind
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
girl dance men
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
funny crazy silly
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
courage art doors
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.