Don Marquis Quotes on Philosophy
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i met a toad the other day by the name of warty bliggens he was sitting under a toadstool feeling contented he explained that when the cosmos was created that toadstool was especially planned for his personal shelter from sun and rain thought out and prepared for him
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a robin said to an angleworm as he ate him i am sorry but a bird has to live somehow the worm being slow witted could not gather his dissent into a wise crack and retort he was effectually swallowed before he could turn a phrase
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there are more things twixt the vermiform appendix and nirvana than are dreamt of in thy philosophy horatio
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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?
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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.