Huckleberry Finn Quotes
14 Huckleberry Finn quotes by 13 unique authors
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Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt…
— Richard Louv
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If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.
— Andy Borowitz
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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk…
— Annie Dillard
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I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been…
— Keith Thibodeaux
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It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours…
— Leslie Fiedler
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By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill…
— Sissy Spacek
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I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.
— John Mortimer
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
— Ernest Hemingway
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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…
— Jane Smiley
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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…
— Jane Smiley
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Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not…
— Robert Vaughn
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My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still.
— Charlton Heston
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Ironically, we were studying 'The Scarlet Letter,' but isn't that always the way? The books you read in class always seems to have a strong…
— Easy A
Who Wrote These Huckleberry Finn Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Huckleberry Finn Quotes as follows: