Grant and Twain Quotes

“At the end of November, with the pain in his throat now causing him visible discomfort, Grant visited Alden Goldsmith, a wealthy horse breeder, at Goshen,”
― Mark Perry, Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America

“God forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system. Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines; and the mulattos one sees in every family partly resemble the white children. Any lady is ready to tell you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody’s household but her own. Those, she seems to think, drop from the clouds.”
― Mark Perry, Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America

“pastor” during the general’s final pain-racked days, even as Fred, Badeau, Twain, and Shrady consigned him to his proper place, at the back of the room, ministering to Julia.”
― Mark Perry, Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America

“Within that single fifteen-month period—perhaps the most creative in American literary history—Grant would not only write his Personal Memoirs, Twain would reach the peak of his career with the publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Those two books, perhaps the finest work of American nonfiction ever written and the greatest of all American novels, defined their legacy.”
― Mark Perry, Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America