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Behind Quotes by Mark Twain
- Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
- I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are…
- Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
- The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you…
- Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that.…
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
- Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to…
- It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace…
- A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because…
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- Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and… — Astley Cooper
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the… — Christian Bale
- All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr