Christopher Morley Quotes

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• The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
• When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole…
• That's what this country needs -- more books!
• Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes…
• The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive:…
• Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a…
• I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness…
• The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of…
• Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I…
• Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
• It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
• There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
• A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the…
• 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…
• Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
• 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…
• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims…
• Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate
• Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
• He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or has no experience of life

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