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Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

Historic scores cannot be settled, and scars cannot be obliterated.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.