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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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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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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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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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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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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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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.
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