Don Marquis Quotes
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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 man has oppressed us for a million years but he goes on steadily cutting the ground from under his own feet making deserts deserts deserts
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Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we shall be ninety-two years old. We intend to work rather hard during those fifty years and accumulate enough to live on without working any more for the next ten years, for we have determined to die at the age of one hundred and two.
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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
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The individual aspiration is always defeated of its perfect fruition and expression, but it is never lost; it passes into the conglomerate being of the race. The way to encourage yourself about the human race is to look at it first from a distance; look at the lights on the high spots.
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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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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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how beautiful is the universewhen something digestible meetswith an eager digestionhow sweet the embracewhen atom rushes to the armsof waiting atom
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A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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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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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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each generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
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We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him. Of course, all of you may not want the kind we want . . . some of you may prefer prunes and morality to the bitter end.