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Suppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know what you thought when you looked in the subway slot-machine? How brutally you spoke when you were angry? How Nature rode you with a busy spur? How you fell on your knees late at night?
Suppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know what you thought when you looked in the subway slot-machine? How brutally you spoke when you were angry? How Nature rode you with a busy spur? How you fell on your knees late at night?
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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