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Christopher Morley

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.


— Christopher Morley


#books #love

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.


— Christopher Morley


#love #friendship

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention.


— Christopher Morley


#food

There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.


— Christopher Morley


#life

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.


— Christopher Morley


#forehead #had #heels #high #high heels

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.


— Christopher Morley


#courage #door #into #keep #leads

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.


— Christopher Morley


#life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it


— Christopher Morley


#life

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It's like falling in love.


— Christopher Morley


#love

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.


— Christopher Morley


#age






About Christopher Morley






Did you know about Christopher Morley?

For most of his life he lived in Roslyn Estates Nassau County Long Island commuting to the city on the Long Island Rail Road about which he wrote affectionately. Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories he helped to found the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. On 14 June 1914 he married Helen Booth Fairchild with whom he would have four children including Louise Morley Cochrane.

He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures. Christopher Morley (May 5 1890 – March 28 1957) was an American journalist novelist essayist and poet.

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