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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis
Biography
Author Profession:
Poet
Nationality:
American
Born:
July 29
, 1878
Died:
December 29
, 1937
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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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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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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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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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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