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It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

Christopher Morley
Running, Science, Glasses
Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.12, Melville House

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
Running, Book, Science
Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.90, Melville House

Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.

Christopher Morley
Running, Baby, Gratitude
Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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