what significant thing do you know about MARK TWAIN???

Question

not really about his life, but like famous quotes, etc.

Answer 1

Below are two quotes I like, but you can choose your own:

http://www.twainquotes.com/quotesatoz.html
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mark_Twain/
http://www.salwen.com/mtquotes.html




"If Shakespeare had been born and bred on a barren and unvisited rock in the ocean his mighty intellect would have had no outside material to work with, and could have invented none; and no outside influences, teachings, moldings, persuasions, inspirations, of a valuable sort, and could have invented none; and so Shakespeare would have produced nothing.
- "What Is Man?"

'No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done"

Answer 2

I don't know what significance you're looking for in quotes, but here's some quotes:
"Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired." -Mark Twain
"Heartache can keep to itself, but to experience the fullness of joy, it must be shared with someone else." -Mark Twain
"It is a true friend's duty to be on your side when you are in the wrong. If you're in the right, almost everyone will be on your side." -Mark Twain
of course the best way to find someon'e quotes and such (besides reading their books) is to search it online...

Answer 3

An anecdote he told about him askig his mother about his early years. The old lady said that Mark Twain was such a sickly child, and she was at her wits' end in trying to take care of him, and of several other siblings as well.

Mark Twain asked, "Were you afraid I wouldn't live?"

She answered, "No, afraid you would!"

Mark Twain, by the way, is a pseudonym.

Answer 4

My favorite quote is by Twain. He said "Don't let school get in the way of your education." Brilliant. Also, he wrote an incredibly funny criticism of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." It's a riot.

Answer 5

I respect him much more as a social critic than as a fiction writer. I get the impression his fiction paid the bills, but he was a brilliant thinker -- a very caustic wit who's essays are still relevant.