Mark Twain Quotes and Curiosities
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I have the same birthday as Mark Twain and Dick Clark.
Love those quotes, laugh out loud funny! My husband and I are huge Mark Twain fans and loved Hal Holbruck鈥檚 one-man show portraying him. We were sure to take a family vacation to Hannibal, Missouri, where there are many sites to see, including Tom Sawyer鈥檚 cave, Mark Twain homestead, museum, etc. Of course, we got the quintessential tourist photo of our kids (now teenagers), white-washing the fence ala Tom Sawyer. Cute! Hannibal, MO is a charming town, right on the mighty Mississippi River. I highly recommend a visit. My grandfather grew up in the nearby town of Palmyra, so I鈥檝e been to Hannibal a number of times and have fond memories. Thanks, OFA, for the Samuel Clemens article and for stirring those memories!
I lived in Redding CT where an old friend had some keepsakes of mark.i was given a lamp supposedly made from a book end from his house. I have no proof it was his. Apparently,the Russians loved his writings鈥 read this years ago鈥s it true? The book end shows a man sitting on a pike of books hunched over and reading. I appreciate mark twains humour as I approach 187 years鈥
I have been a Mark Twain fan since I was a young girl. When we visited relatives in Missouri, they took us to a state park that featured a house had had lived in and had a manuscript he had (started to write) written on a desk that had belonged to him. I have also loved actor Hal Holbrook's one man show about him.
One sad thing about Mark Twain's books is many of them were edited after he died. That should have been illegal.
I do, indeed, wish I had all originals, unblemished.
My favorite Mark Twain quote is: "Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the entire day." I think I got that from the OFA.
I'm currently reading Mark Twain's "memoir" of his early travels and adventures across the US, and it's great. However, having read his above quote about his remembering everything when he was young, whether it happened or not, I have to laugh. Fiction or non, or some combination thereof, "Roughing It" is a marvelous read.
One of a kind; and then some. He is listed as one of my heroes at the top of my LinkedIn page. I am somewhat of a story-teller, idealist and teacher and Mark Twain was that in spades!
Happy birthday Mark! I hope you're up there riding Halley's while cuddling a kitten or three!
This was a great article. That was a very expensive typewriter he bought way back then!!
I, too, fell in love with Mark Twain in High School. Read his complete works and did my last high school paper on him...got an A. My favorite is also Diaries of Adam and Eve.