"Life on the Mississippi" Quotes
By Mark Twain
classics | 384 pages | Published in NaN
A stirring account of America's vanished past... The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer... Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi. At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, Life on the Mississippi is the raw material from which Twain wrote his finest novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . "The Lincoln of our literature." (William Dean Howells)
| ISBN_13: | 9780451528179 |
Quotes
When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
It is a remarkable river in this: that instead of widening toward its mouth, it grows narrower; grows narrower and deeper.
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book—a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice.
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...
A pilot in those days was the only unfettered and entirely independent human being that lived in the earth.
The river was in the nature of a surprise to me.
