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Tupac Shakur quote: “You're right. I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't care.”

“You're right. I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't care.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“They got money for wars but they can’t feed the poor. ”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Tupac Shakur quote: “I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

Tupac Shakur quote: “I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real.”

“I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. ... How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source: Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)

“Don't believe the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Often attributed to Twain, but sourced to Robert J. Burdette, Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/06/world-owes/

“The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Autobiographical Dictation (1906)

“In God We Trust.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased: it always sounds well — In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. And in a measure it is true — half the nation trusts in Him. That half has decided it.
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 394

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“The ancients stole all our great ideas.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Attested at least in 1780 https://books.google.ru/books?id=nUpWAAAAYAAJ&q=Ancients&pg=PA32 (by John Hope):<br><br>Now, the Devil confound those Ancients, for they have stolen all my good thoughts from me! <br class="br">Misattributed

“Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/19/heaven-for-climate/

“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? I was stuck. I couldn't answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 16

“Your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little—crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

"The Chronicle of Young Satan" (ca. 1897–1900, unfinished), published posthumously in Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (1969), ed. William Merriam Gibson ( pp. 165–166 http://books.google.com/books?id=LDvA2xcYZKcC&pg=PA165 in the 2005 paperback printing, ISBN 0520246950)

“A critic never made or killed a book or a play. The people themselves are the final judges. It is their opinion that counts. After all, the final test is truth. But the trouble is that most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Said to portrait painter Samuel Johnson Woolf, cited in Here am I (1941), Samuel Johnson Woolf; this has often been abbreviated: Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.