Works
The Haunted Bookshop
Christopher Morley
Parnassus on Wheels
Christopher Morley
Where the Blue Begins
Christopher MorleyThe Haunted Bookshop
Christopher MorleyParnassus on Wheels
Christopher MorleyWhere the Blue Begins
Christopher MorleyFamous Christopher Morley Quotes
“There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Christopher Morley Where the Blue Begins
Where the Blue Begins (1922)
Christopher Morley Quotes about books
Christopher Morley book Parnassus on Wheels
Variant: When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him 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 I mean.
Source: Parnassus on Wheels
“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”
Christopher Morley book The Haunted Bookshop
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
Variant: There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Source: Pipefuls
Christopher Morley Quotes
Christopher Morley book Parnassus on Wheels
Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
Context: "Lord!" he said, "when you sell a man a book you don't sell him 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 I mean. Jiminy! If I were the baker or the butcher or the broom huckster, people would run to the gate when I came by — just waiting for my stuff. And here I go loaded with everlasting salvation — yes, ma'am, salvation for their little, stunted minds — and it's hard to make 'em see it. 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. It's a new field, but by the bones of Whitman, it's worth while. That's what this country needs — more books!"
“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years.”
Christopher Morley book The Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Context: 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 book The Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Context: 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.
“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”
Christopher Morley book Parnassus on Wheels
Source: Parnassus on Wheels
“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.”
John Mistletoe (1931) http://books.google.com/books?id=20pJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22April+prepares+her+green+traffic+light+and+the+world+thinks+Go%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage
"Contribution to a Contribution" as quoted in The Twin Bedside Anthology (1946) by Charles Lee, p. 183
“My theology, briefly,
Is that the Universe
Was Dictated
But not Signed.”
"Safe and Sane" in Hide and Seek (1920), p. 92 http://books.google.com/books?id=vVEpAAAAYAAJ&q="My+theology+briefly+is+that+the+universe+was+dictated+but+not+signed"&pg=PA92#v=onepage
On Visiting Bookshops http://books.google.com/books?id=6H0hAAAAMAAJ&q=%22We+visit+bookshops+not+so+often+to+buy+any+one+special+book+but+rather+to+rediscover+in+the+happier+and+more+expressive+words+of+others+our+own+encumbered+soul%22&pg=PA82#v=onepage, Pipefuls (1921)
