Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
christian anxiety bears
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
students
All students can learn.
poetry together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
mean eye chance
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.
friendship fashion growing-up
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
women fifty novelty
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
women impossible moments
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.
decision choices finding-yourself
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
truth facts prejudice
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.
good-night wish watches
The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
political slumps commodity
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.