"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."

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Source : In E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962) p. 354

Don Marquis

#Art Quotes #Literature Quotes #Newspapers Quotes

“I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.”
“The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I got back home and began to follow the war on TV and in the press I began to see this enormous con game - I can't think of any other word for it - that government and the military was foisting on the American people, especially on the young men of my generation, and even worse, the young men of my generation who weren't particularly economically or intellectually privileged.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.”
“The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.”
“Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.”
“Religion is behavior and not mere belief.”
“The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.”
“It could reach up and grab the moon.”

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