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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.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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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.
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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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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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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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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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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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