Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
reality definitions noble
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
real book love-life
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
inspirational falling-in-love real
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
order literature realism
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
inspirational educational real
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
bad mind silly
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
graveyard handsome prophets twice
Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard
bad grown luck
We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up
attain brain heart honesty madness men pain restrained
Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained
preach sinner
Only the sinner has a right to preach
character hindrance simplicity subtlety
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
absurd claims life maddening others spend success
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it
When you give someone a book, you dont give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.
accepted people violent yesterday
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.