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All students can learn. (Christopher Morley)
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: it will win. View quote
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Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food. View quote
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. View quote
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If you have to keep reminding yourself of something, perhaps it isn't so. View quote
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Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment. View quote
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Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize that their minds are ill. The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out-after the trouble is over-what was the matter with our minds. View quote
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That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it. View quote
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. View quote
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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings. View quote
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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 man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. (Christopher Morley)
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact. View quote
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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 some human error. View quote
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There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner. View quote
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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. View quote
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Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. View quote
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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. View quote
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The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books. View quote
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. View quote
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Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else. View quote
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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. (Christopher Morley)
The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrownThe poetry, innate, untold,Of being only four years old. View quote
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That's what makes it worth while - I'm doing something that nobody else from Nazareth, Maine, to Walla Walla, Washington, has ever thought of. View quote
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But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. View quote
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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published. View quote
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