"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
"I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered."
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Source: 1898 Notebook, ch.31, Feb ^ Mar.
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