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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.