| Loie [Fuller], like myself -- both red-headed
-- knew that ambition is a horse that more than one can ride. I grabbed
that idea 'way back in the seventies when Artemus Ward came down lecturing
Virginia way. Art was a success and I liked the lordly nonchalance with
which he spent two or three hundred dollars on a tear. I helped him spend
plenty, I assure you, but when Art and the brown taste in my mouth had gone,
I took stock. 'Sam,' I said to myself, quite familiar-like, 'Sam, your mental
adipose is as good as his, and in originality you can beat him dead.' After
these encouraging remarks, I set to work making good. - quoted in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field, Fisher |
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also see:
Vanity Fair quote
"A
Reminiscence of Artemus Ward" from the New York Sunday Mercury
and
Mark Twain
on Artemus Ward from The New York Times
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