...why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain ...that's why ...
John GeddesTag: words cat muse mark-twain
Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.
Mark TwainTag: childhood mark-twain tom-sawyer
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
Mark TwainTag: man dogs heaven quote humans dog mark-twain human-beings
Mark Twain der ki: 'Cennet ve cehennem hakkında ileri geri konuşmam, çünkü her ikisinde de dostlarım var.
Murat MenteşTag: life mark-twain
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He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could.
Mark TwainTag: music humour mark-twain musican
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 together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.
Mark TwainTag: funny fun joke laugh masturbation mark-twain smoke
I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying and doing everything. I feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake. Even while he utters his cynical wisdom in an indescribably droll voice, he makes you feel that his heart is a tender Iliad of human sympathy.
Helen KellerTag: mark-twain
I am drawn to Tom Sawyer Island because a tribute to Mark Twain would not be out of place in a theme park of my own design. Should Vowell World ever get enough investors, I'm going to stick my Tom Sawyer Island in Love and Death in the American Novel Land right between the Jay Gatsby Swimming Pool and Tom Joad's Dust Bowl Lanes, a Depression-themed bowling alley renting artfully worn-out shoes.
Sarah VowellTag: humor mark-twain tom-sawyer great-gatsby as-i-lay-dying amusement-park
Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a genuinely good person, whose soft heart pitied even Satan, but who had no doubt about the legitimacy of slavery, because in years of living in antebellum Missouri she had never heard any sermon opposing slavery, but only countless sermons preaching that slavery was God's will. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergTag: morality ethics superstition slavery frederick-douglass mark-twain
Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
Mark TwainTag: king-arthur training mark-twain thoughts-of-the-mind
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