I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

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I know of no woman—virgin, mother, lesbian, married, celibate, whether she earns her keep as a housewife, a cocktail waitress, or a scanner of brain waves—for whom the body is not a fundamental problem: its clouded meanings, its fertility, its desire, its so-called frigidity, its bloody speech, its silences, its changes and mutilations, its rapes and ripenings.

—Adrienne Rich

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When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it's a formula for misery.

—Suzanne Selfors in Mad Love

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You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.

— Jessica Sorensen in The Secret of Ella and Micha

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I've never met anyone that affects me the way you do. I feel like I could conquer the world, bench press a bus, and run a marathon when I'm with you. You make me feel alive and so happy I can't even think straight.

—Marie Coulson in Bound Together

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I had to face the facts; I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. Especially their shape.

—Charlotte Bingham

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