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...Hollywood, when Mrs. Clara Samossoud, daughter of Mark Twain and widow of Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, put her father's 3,000-volume library up for sale, some rare literary footnotes came to light. In the margin of one book, scrawled in Twain's own hand, was a note on his attempted suicide in 1866: "I put the pistol to my head but wasn't man enough to pull the trigger. Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed, but I was never ashamed of having tried. Suicide is the only really sane thing...
...Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" ("Anybody who doesn't like Huck would suck eggs...
...Sinclair Lewis is not a great writer, America has never had one . . . Mark Twain was not a great writer until the American people woke up 50 years too late. By the same token, Walt Whitman was not a great writer, either. Nevertheless, when Lewis said: "I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country," drunk or sober, he was right...
...sentimental first novel about a bemused little woman with a big heart and a feeble mind. A shirt manufacturer from Iowa, Richard Bissell, wrote A Stretch on the River, a first novel about Mississippi River boatmen, and got as much tang into his account as anyone since Mark Twain...
...reality he was eating chicken), object to Capp's taste. But more of them criticize his political opinions, observable or suspected, as being out of place in a comic strip. Capp's reaction to such censors is violent. He is apt to cry that neither Mark Twain nor Will Rogers would be allowed to say a word today, and that any man who jokes about anything but his own idiosyncrasies risks being tarred, feathered, dissected by a bribed autopsy surgeon and buried in quicklime...