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Mark Twain | 'The difference between the almost right word and the right word is ...
'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.'
'It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes. Read more