UNFORGETTABLE LINES
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Pablo Neruda: "I know only the skin of the earth,
and that it has no name."
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Arab proverb: "If an unlucky man went into
business selling shrouds no one would die."
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Chekhov: "But perhaps the universe is suspended
on the tooth of some monster."
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Balzac: "Love and hatred are emotions that feed
on themselves, but of the two, hatred has a
longer lifespan."
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Eugene Labiche: "Before doing someone a favor,
make sure that he isn’t a madman."
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Brecht: "The world is God’s excrement."
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Heine: "I have never seen an ass who talked like
a human being, but I have met many human beings
who talked like asses."
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Winston Churchill [when told his fly was open]:
"No matter. The dead bird does not leave the
nest."

Mark Twain

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a "noble" animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to -- both have their advantages, "heaven for climate, hell for company!"
- Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, vol. 3


I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of truth that there is a future life...and yet--I am strongly inclined to expect one.
- Mark Twain, a Biography


Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain's Notebook


Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes--none knows whence--and cannot explain itself.
- Eve's Diary


The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
- Mark Twain's Notebook

Oscar Wilde


All women become like their mothers, that is their tragedy; no man does, that is his.

Women give to men the very gold of their lives; but they always want it back in small change.

I like men who have a future, and women who have a past.

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, rather overestimated His ability.

A man can be happy with any woman, so long as he does not love her.

The only duty we owe history is to rewrite it.

I find that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Experience is the name we all give to our mistakes.

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time, they judge them; rarely is ever do they forgive them.

No man is ever rich enough to buy back his past.

Ernest Hemingway


Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Never confuse movement with action.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof crap detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years.
If something is wrong, fix it if you can.
But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Never confuse movement with action.