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Letter "D" » Don Marquis Quotes
«Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.»
«An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.»
«Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.»
Author: Don Marquis
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Keywords:
gun,
instinct,
loads,
pull,
trigger,
triggering,
triggers
«I say that I am myself, but what is this Self of mine But a knot in the tangled skein of things where chance and change combine? Donald R»
Author: Don Marquis
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Keywords:
combine,
Donald,
knot,
knotted,
skein,
tangle,
tangled,
tangles,
tangle with,
what is this
«Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.»
«Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.»
«The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.»
«Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.»
«Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.»
Author: Don Marquis
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Keywords:
canyon,
canyons,
dropping,
droppings,
drop down,
echo,
Grand Canyon,
publishing,
verse,
volume
«The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.»
Author: Don Marquis
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Keywords:
epigram,
paragraphing,
paragraphs,
platitude,
purr,
Purring,
purrs,
stroke