Did he really say that?

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = GEORGE CARLIN...Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R.L.SWIHART

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Lightning Bugs and Lightning

















When Mark Twain said 

The difference between the right word and the almost right word
is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug,


he may have caused an uproar amongst the lightning bug lobby.


If more important words were ever written about
the writing process, they have yet to be translated
into the English language.

But lightning bugs sure can be cute.


Nine more Twain quotes–all bug-free–
can be found here. 

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