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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
Atoms
Keys
Quite
Gone
Used
Everything
Vibrations

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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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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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.
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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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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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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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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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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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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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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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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