When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
Mark TwainIt is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.
Mark TwainOne should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
Mark TwainI will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.
Mark Twain