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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

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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
Explain
Funny
Life
Damn

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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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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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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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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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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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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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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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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No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
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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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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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