Don Marquis Quotes
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
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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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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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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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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 demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
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A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
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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.
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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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dance mehitabel dancecaper and shake a legwhat little blood is leftwill fizz like wine in a keg
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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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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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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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men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn