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Don Marquis Quotes

«I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.»
«[There are people who believe in leprechauns, Santa Claus, aliens in our midst, the innocence of O.J. Simpson and that weight makes a difference in the outcome of a horse race.] An idea, ... is not responsible for the people who believe in it.»
«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»
«The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.»
«A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.»
«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.»
«Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.»
«Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.»
Author: Don Marquis (Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer) | About: Poetry | Keywords: Milton
«I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.»
«When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.»

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