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Stories Quotes by Mark Twain
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal…
- Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
- I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
- I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly…
- Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner…
- I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
- Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
- You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking…
- The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told…
- There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the…
- The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny…
- Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
- The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet…
- 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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