Mark Twain Quotes, Doubt Quotes, Fiction Quotes

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

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Always obey your parents - when they are present.

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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