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What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.


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ROBERT MORLEY Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possi...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is...
PAUL MORLEY Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it wa...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
JOHN MORLEY Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY