Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography Quotes

“Tweedle dee and tweedle dum”
― Twain Mark Twain, Burlesque Autobiography and Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum

“But now a thought occurs to me. My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged. If some other biographies I have read had stopped with the ancestry until a like event occurred, it would have been a felicitous thing, for the reading public. How does it strike you? AWFUL,”
― Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography

“It is not well, when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time—it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. I was born without teeth—and there Richard III had the advantage of me; but I was born without a humpback, likewise, and there I had the advantage of him. My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. But”
― Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography