 | BiographyType: Writter, Lecturer Born: November 30, 1835 Died: April 21, 1910 The name Mark Twain is a pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri Clemens was an American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). A gifted raconteur, distinctive humorist, and irascible moralist, he transcended the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America’s best and most beloved writers. |
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.
Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
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