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Don Marquis

"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

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"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
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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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"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."
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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
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"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."
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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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"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."
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