There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest, “I want you to love her, too!” It is a jealous passion also. He feels a little indignant if he finds that any one else has discovered the book, too. | |
― Christopher Morley | |
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2013 | Outside-In |
2012 | They Are All Perfect |
2011 | Delegation – The “How-To’s” |
2009 | Diet Update and Other Bits & Bobs… |
Posts Tagged ‘Christopher Morley’
And Sometimes Blogs About It
Posted in Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Christopher Morley, Quotes, Reading on December 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Are You Even Listening?
Posted in Quotes, tagged Christopher Morley, On Conversation, On Dogs, On Listening, Quotes on September 24, 2014| 1 Comment »
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. | |
— Christopher Morley | |
[My dog is always a good listener — as long as I’m scratching her tummy. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Namaste |
2012 | Looking Up |
2011 | Et Tu Brute? |
Start Today
Posted in Quotes, Reading, tagged Christopher Morley, On Being Silly, On Reading, On Thinking, Quotes, Reading on September 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
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 continually be part of unanimity. | |
— Christopher Morley | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Fly!! |
2012 | Greater Love |
2011 | Before |
Still Racing
Posted in History, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Books, Christopher Morley, Gunpowder, History, Philosophy, Printer's Ink, Quotes, The Haunted Bookshop on September 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Printer’s ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. | |
― Christopher Morley | |
From his book: “The Haunted Bookshop“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Anew |
2012 | Make Both |
2011 | Are You Happy Yet? |
Book Return
Posted in Family and Friends, Humor, Poetry, Quotes, tagged Christopher Morley, Humor, On Borrowed Books, On Friends, On Lost Books, On Returned Books, Poetry, Quotes, The Haunted Bookshop on September 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
ON THE RETURN OF A BOOK LENT TO A FRIEND |
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I GIVE humble and hearty thanks for the safe return of this book which having endured the perils of my friend’s bookcase, and the bookcases of my friend’s friends, now returns to me in reasonably good condition. | |
I GIVE humble and hearty thanks that my friend did not see fit to give this book to his infant as a plaything, nor use it as an ash-tray for his burning cigar, nor as a teething-ring for his mastiff. | |
WHEN I lent this book I deemed it as lost: I was resigned to the bitterness of the long parting: I never thought to look upon its pages again. | |
BUT NOW that my book is come back to me, I rejoice and am exceeding glad! Bring hither the fatted morocco and let us rebind the volume and set it on the shelf of honour: for this my book was lent, and is returned again. | |
PRESENTLY, therefore, I may return some of the books that I myself have borrowed. | |
― Christopher Morley | |
From his novel: “The Haunted Bookshop“ | |
[This just tickled me… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Keep Writing Your Truths |
Perilous Times For The U.S. Military | |
2012 | The Victor |
2011 | Forging Away At My Deadlines |
2010 | Try This With Your Shoes… |
I’m Feeling It
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Christopher Morley, On Beauty, Philosophy, Quotes on September 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »
In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. | |
— Christopher Morley | |
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2013 | May I Have A Little More, Please? |
2012 | Increasing Doubt |
2011 | You Can’t Touch This |
Trapped (Again)
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Books, Christopher Morley, My Journal, Quotes, The Mind, Thinking on August 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. | |
— Christopher Morley | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Someone Else Believes |
2012 | The Practical Value of Science |
2011 | Seize Gladly The Difficult Task |
A Constitutional Conversation | |
2010 | The Fierce Urgency Of Now… |