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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

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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
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Atheism
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Ark
Sucked

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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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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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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
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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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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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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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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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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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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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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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