Christopher Morley Quotes - Page 5

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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Rain, People

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• Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

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  Important, Seems

  Christopher Morley (1928). “Essays”

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• There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

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  Truth, Men, People

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

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  Falling In Love, Real, Book

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.213, Melville House

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• 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.

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  Book, Soul, Special

  Christopher Morley (1925). “Safety pins: and other essays”

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