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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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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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Better
Never
Instant
Cease
Exist
Beauty
Forever

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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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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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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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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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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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