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If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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