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«Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
integrity, likeable, persons, spite, unswerving
«An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.»
«Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| 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
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| 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.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Honesty
| Keywords:
possessor, possessors, profitable, under control
«Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
interval, periods, unhappiness
«The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Obstacles
| Keywords:
obstacle
«Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fishing
| Keywords:
delusion, fishing, liars, surrounded
«Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| 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
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
epigram, paragraphing, paragraphs, platitude, purr, Purring, purrs, stroke
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