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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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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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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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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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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.
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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 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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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!
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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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 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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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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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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