Christopher Morley

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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


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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.


— Christopher Morley


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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.


— Christopher Morley


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


— Christopher Morley


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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 my chance.


— Christopher Morley


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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.


— Christopher Morley


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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.


— Christopher Morley


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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.


— Christopher Morley


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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.


— Christopher Morley


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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.