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Thunder on the Left
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„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]
Christopher Morley: Citáty anglicky
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.
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.
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
“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
Varianta: There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Zdroj: Pipefuls
Christopher Morley kniha The Haunted Bookshop
Zdroj: The Haunted Bookshop
Christopher Morley kniha The Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
“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
Christopher Morley Travels in Philadelphia
Travels in Philadelphia (1920)
"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
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)
“Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.”
Christopher Morley Where the Blue Begins
Where the Blue Begins (1922)
Christopher Morley Travels in Philadelphia
Travels in Philadelphia (1920)
