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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
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Damn
Explain
Funny
Life

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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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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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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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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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