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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Don Marquis
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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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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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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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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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 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.
Don Marquis
If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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