Mark Twain Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Writing Quotes

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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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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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

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