Christopher Morley citáty
Christopher Morley
Datum narození: 5. květen 1890
Datum úmrtí: 28. březen 1957
Další jména: Christopher Darlington Morley
Christopher Darlington Morley byl americký novinář a spisovatel.
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Citáty Christopher Morley
„Život je cizí jazyk, který všichni lidé vyslovují špatně.“
— Christopher Morley, kniha Thunder on the Left
Thunder on the Left
Originál: (en) Life is foreign language, all men mispronounce it.
Zdroj: [Wallach, Mark I., Christopher Morley, Twayne Publishers, 1976, 55, anglicky]
„But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.“
— Christopher Morley, kniha The Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Kontext: 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.
„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, kniha Parnassus on Wheels
Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
Kontext: "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, kniha The Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Kontext: 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, kniha Parnassus on Wheels
Varianta: 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.
Zdroj: 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 is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.“
— Christopher Morley, kniha The Haunted Bookshop
Zdroj: The Haunted Bookshop
„The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.“
— Christopher Morley, kniha Parnassus on Wheels
Zdroj: Parnassus on Wheels
