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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Damned
Cat
Another
Life
Alley
Alleys
Kitten

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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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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
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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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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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