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There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
-Christopher Morley
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Beauty
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-Christopher Morley
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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
-Christopher Morley
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Books
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest,
-Christopher Morley
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Children
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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
-Christopher Morley
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City Life, Cities
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
-Christopher Morley
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Conformity & Nonconformity
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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
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Creation
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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Dance, Dancing
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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
-Christopher Morley
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Dogs
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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
-Christopher Morley
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Enemy, Enemies
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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
-Christopher Morley
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Fashion
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
-Christopher Morley
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Food
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No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
-Christopher Morley
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Hardship
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Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
-Christopher Morley
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Heaven
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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
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Humor
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-Christopher Morley, Inward Ho
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Life
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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
-Christopher Morley
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Poetry
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The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
-Christopher Morley
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Religion
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-Christopher Morley
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Seasons
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
-Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe
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Success & Failure
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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-Christopher Morley
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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-Christopher Morley
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Books by and about Christopher Morley