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- From: funkster@cats.ucsc.edu (Larry Hastings)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: History (was: a paradox)
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:53:17 GMT
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- +-In article <Bzo7vx.E18@csn.org> lucas@teal.csn.org (Rick Lucas) wrote:
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- | How about some Twain quotations?
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-
- "Twenty-four years ago, I was strangely handsome [...] I was so handsome that
- human activities ceased as if spellbound when I came into view, and even
- inanimate things stopped to look -- like locomotives, and district
- messenger boys and so on. In San Francisco, in rainy season I was often
- mistaken for fair weather..."
- --from a personal letter written by Mark Twain
-
- "Whoo-oop! I'm the old original iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied
- corpse-maker from the wilds of Arkansaw! Look at me! I'm the man they call
- Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an
- earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small pox on
- my mother's side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar'l of
- whisky for breakfast when I'm in robust health, and a bushel of rattlesnakes
- and a dead body when I'm ailing! I split the everlasting rocks with my
- glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak! Whoo-oop! Stand back and
- give me room according to my strength! Blood's my natural drink, and the
- wails of the dying is music to my ear! Cast your eye on me,
- gentlemen!--and lay low and hold your breath, for I'm 'bout to turn myself
- loose!"
- --Mark Twain
-
- "Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly
- good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
- --Mark Twain
-
-
- -- larry hastings, the galactic funkster, funkstr@ucscb.ucsc.edu,
- -- all stated opinions are mine.
- --
- -- "Yeah, it's my flashback booth. Like you don't have one." --Gary Shandling
- --
- -- larry hastings, the galactic funkster, funkstr@ucscb.ucsc.edu,
- -- all stated opinions are mine.
- --
- -- "Yeah, it's my flashback booth. Like you don't have one." --Gary Shandling
-