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
book writing blood
Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.
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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.
education school jail
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
together legends looks
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.
worry happened
I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.
believe achieve
We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.
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Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
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The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.
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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.
spelling chastity
Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.
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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results
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Architects cannot teach nature anything.
heart want gaps
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.