Mark Twain

Mark Twain

"The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable."
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"The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable."
Mark Twain
"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
Mark Twain
"Children have but little charity for each other's defects."
Mark Twain
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."
Mark Twain
"Comparison is the death of joy."
Mark Twain
"Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!... His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values."
Mark Twain
"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."
Mark Twain
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
Mark Twain
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
Mark Twain
"Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain."
Mark Twain
"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain
"It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it."
Mark Twain
"The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him--why, certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same."
Mark Twain
"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't."
Mark Twain
"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."
Mark Twain
"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."
Mark Twain
"Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done."
Mark Twain
"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Mark Twain
"Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce."
Mark Twain
"The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
Mark Twain
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