When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

Don Marquis

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The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

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.

Don Marquis

Tags: writing



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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Don Marquis


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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

Don Marquis


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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

Don Marquis


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The wand waved; the Adam's Apple leapt, and they were off. What followed cannot be indicated typographically. But if a cat were a sawmill, and a dog were a gigantic cart full of tin cans bouncing through a stone paved street, and that dog and that cat hated each other and were telling each other so, it would sound much like it.

Don Marquis


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i do not see why men
should be so proud
insects have the more
ancient lineage
according to the scientists
insects were insects
when man was only
a burbling whatsit

Don Marquis


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Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Don Marquis


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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.

Don Marquis

Tags: thinking irony



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