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Finn Quotes by Jane Smiley
- In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity…
- Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times…
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- Honestly, I'm one of the ones who is least like my character, just because I like to make people laugh and have… — Jacob Artist
- One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people… — Hal Holbrook
- The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their… — Unknown Author
- I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls… — Mark Twain
- I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan… — Azar Nafisi
- The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which… — Unknown Author
- Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv
- If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who… — Michael Gurian
- Never try to out drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian. — Jonas Jonasson
- If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing… — Andy Borowitz
- I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays… — Unknown Author
- I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his… — James Joyce