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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.
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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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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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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