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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
You try to...
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You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
Source: How I Edited an Agricultural Paper, 1870; repr. in The Complete Short Stories, ed. Charles Neider, 1957.
-- 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.