The report of my death was an exaggeration.
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Mark TwainNote to reporter Frank Marshall White, London (May 31, 1897)
About Mark Twain
American humorist and novelist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (1835-1910)
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- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), ch. 12
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Note to the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (February 16, 1901)
- The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter, 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.Letter to George Bainton (October 15, 1888)
- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), ch. 6
- Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.Following the Equator (1897), ch. 15
- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Interview by Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea (1899)
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