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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.
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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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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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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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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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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Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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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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