Christopher Morley: Doing

Christopher Morley was American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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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.”

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!"

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

Christopher Morley
Thinking , Reading , Parting

“Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?”

Christopher Morley

"Contribution to a Contribution" as quoted in The Twin Bedside Anthology (1946) by Charles Lee, p. 183

“The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.”

Christopher Morley Travels in Philadelphia

Travels in Philadelphia (1920)

Children , Personality