My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

—Christopher Morley in Hide and Seek

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About Christopher Morley

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Christopher Darlington Morley (May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.

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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

—Christopher Morley

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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

—Christopher Morley

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There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

—Christopher Morley in Where the Blue Begins

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

—Christopher Morley

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

—Christopher Morley

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One must give back the stare of the universe. Anybody can.

—Hortense Calisher

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The Qabalists believed that the universe was created from sound. Thus by reciting sacred sounds, changes or transformations of matter could take place. Healing could simply consist of reinvoking those sacred sounds in the body. . . . Perhaps this is what the shamans do when they chant.

—Fred Alan Wolf

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If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness. . . . The whole show has been on fire from the word go.

—Annie Dillard

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Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

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Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

—Robert Anton Wilson

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