Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.
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“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”
Christopher Morley
“There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
“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.”
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, 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 continually be part of unanimity.”
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does”
“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.”
“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”
“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.”
“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.”