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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

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The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

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