You can go into Mark Twain`s material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
Hal Holbrook
No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.
Mo Rocca
Mark Twain said `20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn`t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off your bowline. Sail away from the safe harbor.`
Lisa Anderson
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
Russell Banks