
journalist
Autor y humorista estadounidense (1835–1910)
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, conocido por el seudónimo Mark Twain, fue un escritor, humorista y ensayista estadounidense. Ha sido elogiado como el "mayor humorista que ha producido Estados Unidos", con William Faulkner llamándolo "el padre de la literatura estadounidense". Las novelas de Twain incluyen The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) y su secuela, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), siendo esta última a menudo llamada la "Gran Novela Estadounidense". También escribió A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) y Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), y coescribió The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) con Charles Dudley Warner.
“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.”
“To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.”
“Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.”
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.”
“Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
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