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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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Humorist
Journalist
Poet
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
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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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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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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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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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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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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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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 is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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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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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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