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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
Don Marquis
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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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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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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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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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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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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 would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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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You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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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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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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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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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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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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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Don Marquis
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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