Don Marquis Quotes
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.
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To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...
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'...reality’s always dull, you know...'
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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I cannot control what the Republicans leak and what they are contending.
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An irrational fear should never be simply let alone, but should be gradually overcome by familiarity with its fainter forms.
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All in the waning light she stood, The star of perfect womanhood.
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For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
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I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.
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Open afresh your round of starry folds,Ye ardent marigolds!
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I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee - I find I can get a lot done that way.
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Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.