Mark Twain Quotes, Writing Quotes, Men Quotes

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 kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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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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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

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Sometimes people do get hurt

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

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Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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