Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or published:
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“...he came towards them early in the morning, walking on the sea.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 6:48.
“To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers—such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)