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what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
-Don Marquis
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ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather start a family thanfinish one blood will tell but oftenit tells too much
-Don Marquis
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Age
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Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.
-Don Marquis, The Almost Perfect State, pp. 183
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
-Don Marquis
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Authors & Writing
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I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
-Don Marquis
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Blood
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
-Don Marquis
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Boredom
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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
-Don Marquis
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Cats
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
-Don Marquis
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Difficulty
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
-Don Marquis
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Drinking
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prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
-Don Marquis
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Family
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
-Don Marquis
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Fish, Fishing
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
-Don Marquis
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Fortune
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now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
-Don Marquis
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Happiness
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
-Don Marquis
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Honesty
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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
-Don Marquis
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
-Don Marquis
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Ideas
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
-Don Marquis
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
-Don Marquis
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Inheritance
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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.
-Don Marquis
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Insects
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a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat
-Don Marquis
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Instinct
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
-Don Marquis, The Almost Perfect State
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Journalism
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
-Don Marquis
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Money
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
-Don Marquis
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Optimism
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
-Don Marquis
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Parenting
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
-Don Marquis
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Books by and about Don Marquis