Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley American journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright
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There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Christopher Morley
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.
Christopher Morley
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
Christopher Morley
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Christopher Morley
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Christopher Morley
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
Christopher Morley
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, 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.
Christopher Morley
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
Christopher Morley
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley