Mark Twain — "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn'…"
Twenty 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 the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— Mark Twain
Modern
· Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, humorist
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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.
Details
Attributed, common motivational quote, widely disputed as actually said by Twain, often cited as H. Jackson Brown Jr. or a paraphrase of a passage from 'Following the Equator'.