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A glimpse inside the mind of a writer...
Works of poetry and random quotes, both by myself and those that gave me my inspiration. As well as ramblings and dark thoughts of one deeply disturbed individual, namely, myself. If you dislike anything in here, feel free to go to hell. Simple.
Quotations of interest by Mark Twain...
Quote:
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
--Mark Twain's Notebook


Quote:
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
--Mark Twain's Notebook


Quote:
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar


Quote:
Patriot: The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
--More Maxims of Mark


Quote:
People seem to think they are citizens of the Republican Party and that that is patriotism and sufficiently good patriotism. I prefer to be a citizen of the United States.
--Mark Twain's Notebook


Quote:
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar


Quote:
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar


Quote:
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"--which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and--watch that basket!"
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar


Quote:
It is not likely that any complete life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person that lived it.
--More Maxims of Mark


Quote:
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

Quote:
Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled.


Quote:
Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.
--More Maxims of Mark


Quote:
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar


Quote:
You can straighten a worm, but the crook is in him and only waiting.
--More Maxims of Mark



Quote:
I write to please myself. No editor is so hard to satisfy as one's own standard.
--What I am Thankful For


Quote:

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar


I will add more when I find more that interest me.


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  • User Comments: [1]
    this one seemed to fit in row: the Pessimist thinks al is so bad it can only get better. the optimist says al is as good as it can get, so it can get only worse.

    comment sordorel · Community Member · Fri Mar 04, 2005 @ 10:19pm
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