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“It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“You can't pray a lie--I found that out.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“the sun was up so high when i waked, that i judged it was after eight o’clock. i laid there in the grass and the cool shade, thinking about things and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. i could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in there amongst them. there was freckled places on the ground where the light sifted down through the leaves, and the freckled places swapped about a little, showing there was a little breeze up there. a couple of squirrels set on a limb and jabbered at me very friendly.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“I reck'n I knows what I knows.”
― mark twain

“Now, in all that he has done, Amos Tutuola is not sui generis. Is he ungrammatical? Yes. But James Joyce is more ungrammatical than Tutuola. Ezekiel Mphahlele has often said and written that African writers are doing violence to English. Violence? Has Joyce not done more violence to the English Language? Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is written in seven dialects, he tells us. It is acknowledged a classic. We accept it, forget that it has no "grammar", and go ahead to learn his "grammar" and what he has to tell us. Let Tutuola write "no grammar" and the hyenas and jackals whine and growl. Let Gabriel Okara write a "no grammar" Okolo. They are mum. Why? Education drives out of the mind superstition, daydreaming, building of castles in the air, cultivation of yarns, and replaces them with a rational practical mind, almost devoid of imagination. Some of these minds having failed to write imaginative stories, turn to that aristocratic type of criticism which magnifies trivialities beyond their real size. They fail to touch other virtues in a work because they do not have the imagination to perceive these mysteries. Art is arbitrary. Anybody can begin his own style. Having begun it arbitrarily, if he persists to produce in that particular mode, he can enlarge and elevate it to something permanent, to something other artists will come to learn and copy, to something the critics will catch up with and appreciate.”
― Taban Lo Liyong

“You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.”
― Mark Twain

“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Courts musn't interfere and separate families if they could help it. Said he'd druther not take a child away from its father.”
― Mark Twain

“I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat--I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up with it.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Bekase why: would a wise man ant to live in de mid's er such a blimblammin' all de time? No--'deed he wouldn't. A wise man 'ud take en buil' a biler-factry; en den he could shet down de biler-factory when he want to res'.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a toxic Southern Baptist morality.”
― Kelly J. Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger