Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good ...copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troubles...ome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, an...d just goes for him anyway.... It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. Tom Sawyer thinks the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they...'re raised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see that every man that went in had his pockets bulging, or something muffled up under his coat--and I see it warn't no perfumer...y either, not by a long sight. I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in. I shoved in there for a minute, but it was too various for me, I couldn't stand it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on,--s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you d...o now? No, says I, I'd feel bad--I'd feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at t...hem, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened--Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel m...ighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for ...I would get it. But it warn't so. I tried it. Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks. It warn't any good to me without hooks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »