I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.


The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time (ed. 1960)

Mark Twain Quotes

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not then until we have been dead years and years....

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not then until we have been dead years and years....

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not then until we have been dead years and years....

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not then until we have been dead years and years....