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Morley Callaghan

(1903–1990) Lawyer Canada

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Morley Callaghan was a lawyer from Canada.

Quick Facts About Morley Callaghan

Born: February 22, 1903
Died: August 25, 1990
Nationality: Canada
Profession: Lawyer
Notable works: That summer in Paris: memories of tangled friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and some others

About Morley Callaghan

Edward Morley Callaghan was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.

Awards & Honors

Order of Ontario Molson Prize Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Lorne Pierce Medal Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Companion of the Order of Canada

Quotes by Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

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I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

Morley Callaghan

Book

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I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

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“His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without…

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Guilt

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There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

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Inspirational

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I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop…

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“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and…

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Psychology

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“The question is," Harry whispered, trying desperately to joke, "whether it's better to be dead from the neck up or the neck…

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“The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of…

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Confession

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“As he still groped for that one moment, Father Dowling began to think that the whole city for years had been whispering…

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Mind

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