There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.Where the Blue Begins, p. 85, 1922
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Christopher Morley (1890–1957) was an American journalist, novelist, and poet. He is best known for his literary works, including the popular novel "Kitty Foyle" which was later adapted into a successful film. Morley was also a founding member of the Saturday Review of Literature and a prominent figure in the literary scene of the early 20th century.
1890–1957·lived 66 years
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.Where the Blue Begins, p. 85, 1922
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.The Haunted Bookshop, 1919
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.The Haunted Bookshop, 1917
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.Parnassus on Wheels, 1917
A book is a cathedral of words.On visiting bookshops, 1920
That’s all 8 quotes by Christopher Morley.