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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1923 AD · modern
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- Christopher Morley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1923 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Christopher Morley, based on documented lifetime 1890 to 1957. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q931105 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q931105 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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