Mark Twain Quotes, Reality Quotes, Anticipation Quotes

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

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The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

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I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

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The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

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Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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