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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
The face of...
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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book -- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice.
Source: Of learning to pilot a steamboat on the Mississippi; Life on the Mississippi, ch. 45, 1883.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.