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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
Happiness ain't a...
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -- it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. . . . And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
Source: Sam Bartlett, in Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, ch. 1, 1907; published 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.