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• Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

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  Country, Atheism, Noses

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.67, Doubleday

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• Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

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  Keys, Atoms, Gone

  Don Marquis (1916). “Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers”

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• I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

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  Morning, Night, Ideas

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• Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

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  Space, Atheism, Ark

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• I love you as New Englanders love pie!

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  Love, Love You, Pie

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• This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

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  Life, Grief, Eye

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• Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

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  Freedom, America, Literature

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• what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

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  Men, Greed, Lust

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.603, Doubleday

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• A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

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  Work, People, Mourning

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.

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  Fashion, Brother, Passion

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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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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  Blood, Literature, Too Much

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin

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• Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

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  Cat, Life Is, Kitten

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• Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

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  Dream, Strong, Stars

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• A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

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  Gold, Morality, Certain

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.118, Penguin

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