Don Marquis Quotes
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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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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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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a little moreconversation revealedthat warty bliggens considers himself to bethe center of the saiduniversethe earth exists to grow toadstools for himto sit underthe sun to give him lightby day and the moonand wheeling constellationsto make beautifulthe night for the sake ofwarty bliggens
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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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breakfast breakfasti am full of breakfastand they are at breakfastin heaventhey breakfast in heavenall s well with the world
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If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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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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i met a toadthe other day by the nameof warty bliggenshe was sitting undera toadstoolfeeling contentedhe explained that when the cosmoswas createdthat toadstool was especiallyplanned for his personalshelter from sun and rainthought out and preparedfor him
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dedicated to babswith babs knows whatand babs knows why
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there are more thingstwixt the vermiform appendixand nirvana than are dreamt ofin thy philosophy horatio
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what man calls civilization always results in deserts
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a robin said to anangleworm as he ate himi am sorry but a birdhas to live somehow theworm being slow witted couldnot gather hisdissent into a wise crackand retort he waseffectually swallowedbefore he could turna phrase
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i asked himwhy is it that you are so greatly favoredask rathersaid warty bliggenswhat the universehas done to deserve me
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the octopus's secret wishis not to be a formal fishhe dreams that some time he may growanother set of legs or soand be a broadway music show
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there is alwaysa comforting thoughtin time of trouble whenit is not our trouble
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Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
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it is a cheering thought to thinkthat god is on the side of the best digestion
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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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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oh i should worry and fretdeath and i will coquettethere s a dance in the old dame yettoujours gai toujours gai