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A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.
— Mark Twain
Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.
— Mark Twain
But there are some infelicities. Such as 'like' for 'as,' and the addition of an 'at' where it isn't needed. I heard an educated gentleman say, 'Like the flag-officer did.' His cook or his butler would have said, 'Like the flag-officer done.' You hear gentlemen say, 'Where have you been at?
— Mark Twain
Writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we 'modify' before we print.
— Mark Twain
When people are voiceless, they will have temper tantrums like a child who has not been paid attention to. And riots are massive temper tantrums from a neglected and voiceless people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny, to a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks. For an instant the veil had lifted upon his keen, intense nature, but for an instant only. When I glanced again his face had resumed that red-Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy. Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.... All laughter then is occasioned by a paradox.... This, briefly stated, is the true explanation of the ludicrous.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
— Audre Lorde
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
— Audre Lorde