Christopher Morley - Human Quotes

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Words, he concluded, are a commodity in which there is never any slump. Talk is the greatest industry, and all human beings move in clouds of it — not merely their own, but in the rumors and representations of others, to which they are sometimes painfully sensitive.

Christopher Morley
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.

Christopher Morley
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.

Christopher Morley
Sweep the pale hair, like wings, above the ears; Whittle the nose, and carve and bone the jaw; Blank the studying eyes, till human fears Eliminate in universal law. Slack the mortal shirt, stiffen the hands, Holding the dear old pipe, half-smoked, unlit — So, lovingly, we loose Orion's Bands And write equation with the Infinite.

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The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Christopher Morley
Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

Christopher Morley