Linux Literature

What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working
when he's staring out the window.

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone
to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened
or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I
cannot remember any but the things that never happened.  It is sad to
go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
                -- Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth.
                -- Mark Twain

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
                -- Dylan Thomas

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
                -- Roger Zelazny, "Doorways in the Sand"

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last
you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his
Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
                -- Mark Twain "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform.
                -- Mark Twain

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt
of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race.  He
brought death into the world.
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"