Mark Twain Quotes, Literature Quotes

In literature imitations do not imitate.

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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

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The southerner talks music.

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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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