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Christopher Morley quotes about him

American Author May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957

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When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley quote: "When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of..."
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
Christopher Morley quote: "I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they..."
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
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
Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him! Christopher Morley

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