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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

Don Marquis

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Life
Damn
Explain
Funny

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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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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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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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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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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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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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 takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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