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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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
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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.
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
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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
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what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
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