American - Poet | July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis
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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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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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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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A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
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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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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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