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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
Vibrations
Atoms
Keys
Quite
Gone
Used
Everything

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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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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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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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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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what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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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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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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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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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