Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
reading believe paradise
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
reading believe eye
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.
appreciation men editors
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
writing blow brain
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.
valleys schedules crafts
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.
book people willing
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
inspiration thinking boys
As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'
virtue respectable
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
rain water problem
The solution to our water problems is more rain.
past moments pondering
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.
joy consciousness
On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.
needs helping checks
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vanity metrics drunkards
All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.
metrics strategy ifs
If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.