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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

Christopher Morley

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.

Christopher Morley

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.

Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley

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Born: May 5, 1890

Died: March 28, 1957 (aged 66)

Bio: Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.

Known for:

The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1939)
Where the blue begins (1922)
Thunder on the Left (1925)

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