An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.Don Marquis
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
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Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Don Marquis
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Don Marquis
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
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We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
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Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.
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