"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
-Don Marquis
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"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."
-Don Marquis
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"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
-Don Marquis
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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
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"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
-Don Marquis
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"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
-Steve Martin
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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