The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
-- Mark Twain
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Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long
as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks
into, there is room for lateral movement. Once this begins, its rate is
a matter of discretion.
-- Corwin, Prince of Amber
Just because the message may never be received does not mean it is
not worth sending.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
-- J.P. Donleavy
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
Q: What looks like a cat, flies like a bat, brays like a donkey, and
plays like a monkey?
A: Nothing.
Tell the truth or trump--but get the trick.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more
deadly in the long run.
-- Mark Twain
You are confused; but this is your normal state.
Q: Know what the difference between your latest project
and putting wings on an elephant is?
A: Who knows? The elephant *might* fly, heh, heh...
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
-- Mark Twain
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that
makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and
an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
-- Samuel Beckett
You are magnetic in your bearing.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed
down-stairs a step at a time.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The
Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered.
-- Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The Bookman"), January 1901.
You're growing out of some of your problems, but there are others that
you're growing into.
You may be gone tomorrow, but that doesn't mean that you weren't here today.
You will visit the Dung Pits of Glive soon.
Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you.
Learn to pause -- or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you.