Christopher Morley - Life Quotes

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There is only one success, he said to himself — to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Morley
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Christopher Morley
There is but one success — to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

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

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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.

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Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.

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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.

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A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Christopher Morley