Linux Literature

And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?

Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things
than someone who hasn't.
                -- Mark Twain

April 1

This is the day upon which we are reminged of what we are on the other three
hundred and sixty-four.
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
                -- Shakespeare, "King Lear"

As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement,
especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously
-- I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being
in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching
after fact and reason.
                -- John Keats

AWAKE! FEAR! FIRE! FOES! AWAKE!
        FEAR! FIRE! FOES!
                AWAKE! AWAKE!
                -- J. R. R. Tolkien

Awash with unfocused desire, Everett twisted the lobe of his one remaining
ear and felt the presence of somebody else behind him, which caused terror
to push through his nervous system like a flash flood roaring down the
mid-fork of the Feather River before the completion of the Oroville Dam
in 1959.
                -- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton
                   bad fiction contest.

Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
                -- Mark Twain

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"--which is
but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention;" but the wise
man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and--WATCH THAT BASKET."
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"