Frases de Christopher Morley

Christopher Darlington Morley foi um jornalista, novelista, ensaísta e poeta estadunidense.

✵ 5. Maio 1890 – 28. Março 1957   •   Outros nomes Christopher Darlington Morley
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Christopher Morley: Frases em inglês

“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.”

Christopher Morley livro Parnassus on Wheels

Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
Contexto: "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!"

“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years.”

Christopher Morley livro The Haunted Bookshop

The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Contexto: 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.

“But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”

Christopher Morley livro The Haunted Bookshop

The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Contexto: 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.

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell 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.”

Christopher Morley livro Parnassus on Wheels

Variante: 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.
Fonte: Parnassus on Wheels

“There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

Christopher Morley Where the Blue Begins

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

Variante: There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Fonte: Pipefuls

“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.”

John Mistletoe (1931) http://books.google.com/books?id=20pJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22April+prepares+her+green+traffic+light+and+the+world+thinks+Go%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage

“Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?”

"Contribution to a Contribution" as quoted in The Twin Bedside Anthology (1946) by Charles Lee, p. 183

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

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

“We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.”

On Visiting Bookshops http://books.google.com/books?id=6H0hAAAAMAAJ&q=%22We+visit+bookshops+not+so+often+to+buy+any+one+special+book+but+rather+to+rediscover+in+the+happier+and+more+expressive+words+of+others+our+own+encumbered+soul%22&pg=PA82#v=onepage, Pipefuls (1921)