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#6414"... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often
picturesque liar."
-- Mark Twain
#6415An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
#6416And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?
#6417Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things
than someone who hasn't.
-- Mark Twain
#6418April 1

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three
hundred and sixty-four.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
#6419As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
-- Shakespeare, "King Lear"
#6420As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
#6421At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement,
especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously
-- I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being
in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching
after fact and reason.
-- John Keats
#6422AWAKE! FEAR! FIRE! FOES! AWAKE!
FEAR! FIRE! FOES!
AWAKE! AWAKE!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
#6423Awash with unfocused desire, Everett twisted the lobe of his one remaining
ear and felt the presence of somebody else behind him, which caused terror
to push through his nervous system like a flash flood roaring down the
mid-fork of the Feather River before the completion of the Oroville Dam
in 1959.
-- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton
bad fiction contest.
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