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Don Marquis Quotes about Literature

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A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Don Marquis
Country, Literature, Gang
Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

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

Don Marquis
Art, Literature, Newspapers
In E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962) p. 354

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

Don Marquis
Men, Literature, Virtue

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

Don Marquis
Important, Literature, Care

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

Don Marquis
Freedom, America, Literature

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.

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

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