Mark Twain Quotes
To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
Mark Twain
Quotes to Explore
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Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
F. Murray Abraham
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
Edouard Manet
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
Macaulay Culkin
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The American people need to know where this man stands on the issue of privacy.
Nancy Keenan
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
Edan Lepucki
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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
Heraclitus
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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
Mark Twain
