To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas, the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. -- Mark Twain
Friday, November 30, 2012
The Great Man
It's Mark Twain's birthday today. He'd be one of the attendees at my dream dinner party. HuffPo has a nice selection of quotations here. It's hard to choose a favorite, but since we've just survived another election, I'll go with this one:
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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