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The Mark Twain Challenge:
Open to all archives.
Use at least five (5) Mark Twain quotes. These can be used in the body of the story or as an opening thought for each chapter.
If using quote in the body or dialogue of the story, you must cite the quote in Arthor Notes in every chapter one is used.
http://www.twainquotes.com/index.html
The above site has a large collection of quotes sorted by topic.
Below is a sampling of quotes that can be found:
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
- Letter to Olivia Clemens, 7/1/1885 (referring to General Grant)
Prophecy: two bull's eyes out of a possible million.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
A prophet doesn't have to have any brains. They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work. It is the restfulest vocation there is. When the spirit of prophecy comes upon you, you merely cake your intellect and lay it off in a cool place for a rest, and unship your jaw and leave it alone; it will work itself: the result is Prophecy.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Revenge is wicked, & unchristian & in every way unbecoming, & I am not the man to countenance it or show it any favor. (But it is powerful sweet, anyway.)
- Letter to Olivia, 12/27/1869
There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.
- 67th birthday dinner, 11/28/1902 (I see this as something coming from Remus explaining his and James' actions.)
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.
- The Innocents Abroad (Perhaps something Lucius Malfoy is thinking while in prison.)
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
- What is Man?
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
- "The Lowest Animal"
...the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Like all the other nations, we worship money and the possessors of it- they being our aristocracy, and we have to have one. We like to read about rich people in the papers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. ..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth.
- What Is Man? |
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