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Updated: May 17, 2025

Clemens could also push the balls about, and, without rivalry from me, who could no more play billiards than smoke, could win endless games of pool, while he carried points of argument against imaginable differers in opinion. Here he wrote many of his tales and sketches, and for anything I know some of his books.

William Dean Howells - Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship

Clemens could also push the balls about, and, without rivalry from me, who could no more play billiards than smoke, could win endless games of pool, while he carried points of argument against imaginable differers in opinion. Here he wrote many of his tales and sketches, and for anything I know some of his books.

William Dean Howells - My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)