So for every Picasso, there's a Cezanne, who if you go to Le Musee d'Orsay and you look at all of his greatest works, they're all painted in his 50s and 60s, or for every Melville who writes Moby Dick at 28 or 29, there is a Mark Twain who writes 'Huckleberry Finn' in his late 40s or early 50s.
Mark Twain was a pretty good stock pundit, which is why I named one of my thrillers The Twain Maxim after him.
Mark Twain has a hundred and fifty-three quotations, Oscar Wilde a hundred and twenty-three.
To borrow a phrase from Mark Twain, everybody talks about the national debt, but nobody does anything about it.
The author Mark Twain wrote a short story, The Million Pound Bank Note (later made into a film starring Gregory Peck), in which a penniless sailor is given the note, little knowing he is the subject of a bet between two brothers.
The Mark Twain Prize honors people who have an impact on society in the tradition of Samuel Clemens, better known as Twain, as a social commentator and satirist.
Like the monarch in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Lafley often makes house calls incognito to find out what's on the minds of his subjects.
Out in April, my latest novel, The Twain Maxim, is a financial thriller set in the Congo.
Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" in 1889 cleverly explains his hero's Camelot journey as a hazy dream.
Even in the 1980s, subscriptions were still sold door-to-door, just as they were100 years earlier, when Mark Twain came out with a new book.
After his two losers, Jack (Peter Beard) and Leo (Martin Greenbaum), spend seven years courting the same woman, Vera (each has his own version of her, played by different actresses), she runs off with a third man, and her jilted suitors head for the wilderness in raucous despair to live out a survivalist fantasy that joins Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway to Charlie Chaplin, W. C.
Van Wyck Brooks, a 20th-century critic, called Twain an artist who hated art.
ECONOMIST: A man who never let anything stand in the way of a joke
But of course we turn to the godfather, Mark Twain, who has said a couple of wonderful things about fathers.
Mark Twain famously described golf as a good walk, spoiled, but if you find no other enjoyment in a round, it can provide a lovely 4-mile walk (more if you spray the ball).
With a title drawn from the work of Mark Twain, the album tells tales of love, death, betrayal and even baseball.
"I couldn't be any happier, " Twain told The Associated Press in a phone call from the Bahamas, where she lives between shows.
How would, say Mark Twain, handle an iPhone or a text?
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American literature may have been safely ensconced in Boston, but Twain, already in demand as a travel writer at 32, sailed to Europe and the Middle East.
ECONOMIST: A man who never let anything stand in the way of a joke
He also won the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for humour in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.
He also won the Kennedy Center's second Mark Twain Prize for Humor in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.
There is an old joke--attributed, of course, to Mark Twain--about the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector: The taxidermist takes only your skin.
The sophistication of modern agriculture enables us to safely cultivate crops for both food and new pharmaceuticals, and to ensure that ne'er the twain shall meet, at least in a way likely to cause injury.
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Here is Mark Twain on the Pony Express in 1861 writing in a style that the New Yorker made its own 100 years later, all the way down to using words for numbers.
But knowing that trust has become precious and the ability to deliver it, as Mark Twain once said, is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Ms. Twain has taken back much of the memorabilia that she donated, including a tour bus and a concert stage.
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At a literary supper in Boston to celebrate John Greenleaf Whittier's 70th birthday, Twain mocked Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ralph Waldo Emerson, all of whom were in attendance.
ECONOMIST: A man who never let anything stand in the way of a joke
Thiebaud coaches Twain's son in soccer, and she said the 11-year-old is a happy child.
On Monday, Twain announced 22 new show dates this fall for "Shania: Still the One, " a spectacle at a 4, 300-seat Caesars Palace concert hall that includes two trained horses, a live band, and the 47-year-old Canadian beauty clad in sparkling bodysuits and thigh-high boots.
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