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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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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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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
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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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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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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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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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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.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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
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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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