Mark Twain: His Words
By Daniel Coenn
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Copyright © 2014 by Daniel Coenn
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Mark Twain: His Words
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Quotes
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
“For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
“Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.”
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”
“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.”
“A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”
“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
“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. So he goes to work. To write a novel? No - that is a thought which comes later; in the beginning he is only proposing to tell a little tale, a very
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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Texte: Daniel Coenn
Bildmaterialien: Daniel Coenn
Lektorat: Blago Kirof
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 08.06.2014
ISBN: 978-3-7368-1861-3
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