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Literature Quotes by Mark Twain
- It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as…
- I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
- I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The…
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost…
- Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.
- Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
- Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the…
- I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
- In literature imitations do not imitate.
- Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
- Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but…
- I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
- To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.
- 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.
- The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
- High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
- The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades
- Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories
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- It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville