Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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The real yellow peril: Gold.

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There isn't any way to libel the human race.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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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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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

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It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

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Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

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