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It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

quote by Marcel Achard
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The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

quote by Marcel Achard
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

quote by Beatrice Wood
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A Gypsy Cab Author Caught In A Texas Milky Way, A Letter Poem To M. Meursault

for Bob. M.

Mark the first page of the book with a red marker.
For, in the beginning, the wound is invisible. - Edmund Jabes

And so it was I entered the broken world to trace the visionary company of love.
- Hart Crane

'A man of many false starts...'
- Opening line from the manuscript spoken about below.

Mon Cher Marcel Meursault, homo viator **,
tumbleweed rumor, post-war roamer,
son of Cain, Biblical stain in from desert storms,

Petrochemical companies flare just cross the highway, multi-lane signals of Mammon Cathedral in the Wasteland, it's neon void promises a Velvet Jesus, a Velvet Elvis to a desert kingdom of the far flung, you being one of them, now home from the war in exile before and after, returning to the beat up but beloved truck that also tells a story and leaves a stain. Black puddles beneath write the names of God:

Jake, his slow breakdown while breaking into those stately mansions of the godly rich; hard lessons of earnest Private Dodge wanting approval and love ill sought from the gold-toothed, refugee Drill Sergeant Tomaso, late of Liberia, a wannabee Jehovah with too much power over America's young game boys shipwrecked onto military shores.

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poem by Warren Falcon
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One must feel a woman before even seeing it.

classic quote by Marcel Rochas
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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

classic quote by Marcel Proust
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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

quote by Marcel Marceau
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The only paradise is paradise lost.

quote by Marcel Proust
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It's good to shut up sometimes.

quote by Marcel Marceau
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We become moral when we are unhappy.

quote by Marcel Proust
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