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This thread feels incomplete without this Mark Twain quote:

"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."

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I was expecting someone to mention his stance against modern tech and ebooks. But I like it better this way, this is a good memorial and nostalgia thread, fit for an author whose writing style was very nostalgic.

It's so much easier for people just to delete the books off of your device without your permission than to send people to your house to burn them.

I tried to buy a book of his on my Kindle yesterday. It wasn't there. So I guess I'll be going to the library instead. I think that's what he would have preferred anyhow.

I prefer this one, which was a response to a prompt about meaning: "How should I know? I only wrote the thing."

I've heard it attributed to Hemingway.

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