“… you can blow up a man with gun powder 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.” Roger Mifflin in Christopher Morley’s “The Haunted Bookshop”
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Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley was an American journalist and writer, born on May 5, 1890, in Pennsylvania, and died on March 28, 1957. Known for his humorous and witty writing style, Morley is considered an important figure in American literature of the 20th century. more
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