twain

If you'd like to have something to read, then read something like mark twain rather than the newspaper.

It took Twain 8 years to write Huck Finn and it was finally published when he was 49.

Mark Twain was a suppose the best known author to have been employed as a typographer.

Mr Twain had a wonderfully interesting life, filled with triumph and more tragedy than he deserved.

Reminds me of how Mark Twain actually made far, far more money on the public speaking circuit than as a writer.

And if Mark Twain was alive and writing today he'd be an embittered blogger.

Much like how every interesting quote is attributed to Churchill, Twain and Einstein.

You know what Twain says - there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Reminds me a bit about how Mark Twain would redesign English spelling.

- Mark Twain Nothing, not all the armies of the world, can stop an idea whose time has come.

The arrangement where you have creators here and consumers here and never the twain shall meet is a twentieth-century perversion we are well rid of.

The genders do not necessarily map gracefully onto sexes (see Mark Twain's "The Goddamned German Language" for some cases where this is so).

Btw, you might like "The Awful German" by Mark Twain.

It's interesting that Twain grew to loathe Kipling due to the latter's efforts to get the US to "take up the white man's burden" and assume Britain's imperial ambitions as it was forced to give up its possessions.

I agree that it is much harder than it might seem for a document not to get in its own way; sort of the procedural version of Twain's "I would have written a shorter letter if I had had more time." I didn't in any way mean to question the value of this document, only its unicity.

Twain wrote many novels b/f his breakout success, whichever book it was.

There's lots more about this in The Autobiography of Mark Twain.

As one of my favorite sayings goes: A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way (Mark Twain).