If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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| Birth: | 29th July, 1878 |
| Death: | 29th December, 1937 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Humorist, Journalist |
About
Donald Robert Perry Marquis was born in Walnut, Illinois. He 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. He was the author of about 35 books. He co-wrote to the films The Sports Pages, Shinbone Alley, The Good Old Soak and Skippy. The 1926 film The Cruise of the Jasper B was supposedly based on his 1916 novel of the same name, although the plots have little in common.
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