Mark Twain — "I like a good story, but I like a true story better."
I like a good story, but I like a true story better.
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"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
"The very first thing which a man has to do, in order to learn how to do a thing, is to learn how to unlearn it."
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About Mark Twain (1835-1910)
American humorist and inventor of the American vernacular novel; author of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Closely associated with William Dean Howells (his close friend, editor, and 'Dean of American Letters') and Bret Harte (early collaborator on Western frontier humor). For an intellectual contrast, see Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement — Twain's Christian Science (1907) is a 200-page sustained polemic against Eddy's claims of supernatural healing — the longest sustained attack of his career.