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“The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.”
― Mark Twain

“I am eleven years old, I know, and I am not serious enough. Last night I said to myself: tomorrow I will be good. Good? I wasn't any better than I was the day before. Now here is a new month, and I haven't yet thought out how to be more sensible, how to master my impulses and my temper. I am ashamed to be so undisciplined.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1

“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.”
― Montesquieu

“The simple life is an authentic life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls