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Moon you re as cold as a frozen skin of yellow banan that sticks in the frost and ice on top of a garbage can

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I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

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If all the bugs in all the worlds twixt earth and betelgoose should sharpen up their little stings and thrun their feelings loose they soon would show all human beans in saturn earth or mars their relative significance among the spinning stars

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Large numbers exert a malign influence upon the imagination; something unsocial and sinister and detached from reality and demoniac steals out of them like a vapor to corrode and corrupt the pink and innocent convolutions of the brain.

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Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

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That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

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One thing the human bean never seems to get into it is the fact that humans appear just as unnecessary to cockroaches as cockroaches do to humans

Don Marquis

Don Marquis

Don Marquis

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Born: July 29, 1878

Died: December 29, 1937 (aged 59)

Bio: Donald Robert Perry Marquis was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse.

Known for:

Archy and Mehitabel (1927)
The Old Soak: And Hail and Farewell (1921)
The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
The Best of Archy and Mehitabel

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