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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
Don Marquis
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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Illinois
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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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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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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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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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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