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
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.
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.
believe men hands
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
health imagination logic
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
love prayer heart
Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.