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“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”

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This book is a humorous and critical reinterpretation of biblical narratives, offering Twain's unique commentary on the texts. more

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a renowned American author and humorist in the 19th century. His works are characterized by humor, satire, and profound social insight, with notable novels such as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. more

“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”

“I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.”

Hands Ruined

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

“They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.”

Made Use Winning Born Shame Freak

Author:Katherine Dunn

“Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.”

Life Believe Eye Walks Poor Streets Baby Clothes Doctors Stores Ads Darling

Author:Katherine Dunn

“If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!”

Ifs Looks Littles Facts Would Be Steps Dangerous Danger Harder Puddles

Book:The Eagle & the Nightingales

Source: The Eagle & the Nightingales

“We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”

Want Eye Colour Mould

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”

Adults Premature Fierceness

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.”

Said I Can Ends Home House Wind Promise North Wind

Book:At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated): Children's Classic Fantasy Novel from the Author of Adela Cathcart, Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, The Light Princess & Dealings with the Fairies

Source: At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated): Children's Classic Fantasy Novel from the Author of Adela Cathcart, Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, The Light Princess & Dealings with the Fairies

“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”

Men World Said Feelings Bigs Universe Strange Normal Old Man Paranoia Sinister Perfectly Normal

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

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