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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,…
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now…
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is…
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific…
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With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go…
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage…
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into…
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs…
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for…
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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their…
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He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby…
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.
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With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays;…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like…
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I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.
— Tina Fey
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People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The…
— Andy Gray
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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You've got a way with words. You got me smiling even when it hurts. There's no way to measure what your love…
— Marilyn Monroe
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who…
— Edward Abbey
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of…
— Edward Abbey
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As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
— Edward Abbey
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