 |
|
 |
 |
 |
NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
We never become...
Vendor: NOVELISTS
We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
Source: Autobiography, ch. 55 (ed. by Charles Neider, 1959).
-- 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.