Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
Christopher MorleyStichwörter: books men mind mankind ideas brain bookshop minds bookshops
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher MorleyThe beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.
Christopher MorleyLong ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race. It saddens me to think that I shall have to die with thousands of books unread that would have given me noble and unblemished happiness.
Christopher MorleyIt's one of the uncanniest things I know to watch a real book on its career―it follows you and follows you and drives you into a corner and makes you read it.
Christopher MorleyThat's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.
Christopher MorleyOverhead the night was a superb arch of clear frost, sifted with stars.
Christopher MorleyStichwörter: night-sky
Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.
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