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

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“If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.”

Christopher Morley

Love , People

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

Christopher Morley

Sense

“It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.”

Christopher Morley book The Haunted Bookshop

The Haunted Bookshop (1919)

Way

“We 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.”

Christopher Morley

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)

Books , Soul