Christopher Morley

(1890 - 1957) American journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright

"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."
- Source: The Haunted Bookshop (1919)

"Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment."
- Source: Where the Blue Begins (1922)

On books: "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!" — Roger Mifflin, as written by Christopher Morley in Parnassus on Wheels, 1917

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.
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.
April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks GO!it:Christopher Morley

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