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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Everything
Vibrations
Atoms
Keys
Quite
Gone
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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
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I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
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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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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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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 better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
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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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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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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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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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