I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
More Quotes from Don Marquis:
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.Don Marquis
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Don Marquis
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
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.
Don Marquis
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