“My theology, briefly,
Is that the Universe
Was Dictated
But not Signed.”

— Christopher Morley

"Safe and Sane" in Hide and Seek (1920), p. 92 http://books.google.com/books?id=vVEpAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;My+theology+briefly+is+that+the+universe+was+dictated+but+not+signed&quot;&pg=PA92#v=onepage

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American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet 1890–1957

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