Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men. — 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 words of others, our own encumbered soul. — 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
