“Varanasi” is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.
Mark Twain Quotes
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
In literature imitations do not imitate.
It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
And what can be more obscene than our own imaginations?
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
The water treatment was new, now, and Tom’s low condition was a windfall to her (Aunt Polly). She had him out at daylight every morning, stood him up in the woodshed and drowned him with a deluge of cold water; then she scrubbed him down with a towel like a file, and so brought him […]
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it.
