Don Marquis Quotes About Literature
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I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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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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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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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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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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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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By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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