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马克·吐温 美国批判现实主义文学的奠基人

马克·吐温(Mark Twain,1835年11月30日—1910年4月21日),原名萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门(Samuel Langhorne Clemens),美国作家、演说家,“马克·吐温”是他的笔名,原是密西西比河水手使用的表示在航道上所测水的深度的术语。马克·吐温是美国批判现实主义文学的奠基人,马克·吐温一生写了大量作品,体裁涉及小说、剧本、散文、诗歌等各方面。从内容上说,他的作品批判了不合理现象或人性的丑恶之处,表达了这位当过排字工人和水手的作家强烈的正义感和对普通人民的关心;从风格上说,专家们和一般读者都认为,幽默和讽刺是他的写作特点。他经历了美国从初期资本主义到帝国主义的发展过程,其思想和创作也表现为从轻快调笑到辛辣讽刺再到悲观厌世的发展阶段,前期以辛辣的讽刺见长,到了后期语言更为暴露激烈。被美国的权威期刊《大西洋月刊》评为影响美国的10...

Go to heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Every one is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Though love seems the fastest of all growths, it is really the slowest. No man or woman knows what perfect love is, until they have been married a quarter of a century.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.
Ingersoll's story of the man that went down from heaven on a reduced-rate excursion ticket good for 30 days --- and tried to sell his return ticket.
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what he doesn't know.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteencenturies, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?(From Jane Lampton Clemens)
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
What a fool old Adam was. Had everything his own way; had succeeded in gaining the love of the best looking girl in the neighborhood, but yet unsatisfied with his conquest he had to eat a miserable little apple.
Prophesying was the only human art that couldn't be improved by practice.
Principles is another name for prejudice.