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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis
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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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More quotes by Don Marquis
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death I am alive!
Don Marquis
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Don Marquis
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
Don Marquis
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
Don Marquis
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
Don Marquis
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
Don Marquis
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Don Marquis
Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
Don Marquis
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
Don Marquis
it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
Don Marquis
There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
Don Marquis
fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
Don Marquis
An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
Don Marquis
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
Don Marquis
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
Don Marquis
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
Don Marquis
You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
Don Marquis
It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.
Don Marquis
