Paulette Buche

“Supposing is good, finding out is better.”
― Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

“Between 1870 and 1905 Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) tried repeatedly, and at long intervals, to write (or dictate) his autobiography, always shelving the manuscript before he had made much progress. By 1905 he had accumulated some thirty or forty of these false starts—manuscripts that were essentially experiments, drafts of episodes and chapters; many of these have survived in the Mark Twain Papers and two other libraries. To some of these manuscripts he went so far as to assign chapter numbers that placed them early or late in a narrative which he never filled in, let alone completed. None dealt with more than brief snatches of his life story.”
― Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1

“An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth--a fact that is recognized by the law of libel. Among other common lies we have the silent lie – the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth.”
― Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]

“Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens has been quoted as saying he thought the Book of Mormon was "chloroform in print". For”
― Park B. Romney, The Apostasy of a High Priest- The Sociology of An American Cult