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Gelett Burgess Quotes


An artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. 
Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse. He was the author of the popular Goops books, and was the inventor of the blurb.

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Old friends we say are best when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

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I never saw a Purple Cow I never hope to see one: But I can tell you anyhow I'd rather see than be one.

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If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.

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There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.