The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“It's one of the uncanniest things I know to watch a real book on its career―it follows you and follows you and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits,… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh. — Christopher Morley Copy Share
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or… — Christopher Morley Copy Share
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. — Christopher Morley Copy Share
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. — Christopher Morley Copy Share
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be… — Christopher Morley Copy Share
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. — Christopher Morley Copy Share
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion… They begin haphazard. — Christopher Morley Copy Share
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied… — Christopher Morley Copy Share
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. — Christopher Morley Copy Share
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. — Christopher Morley Copy Share
“Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least… — Christopher Morley Copy Share
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