Mark Twain Quotes, Genius Quotes, Hunger Quotes

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

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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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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

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My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.

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Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

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Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

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Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

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When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

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There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

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