“When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.” MindSpeakMy OwnHonestyAffairFolksKinder Book:The Argonauts of North Liberty Source: The Argonauts of North Liberty
“Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!” IfsWritingHas BeensFeelingsLightHoursDarkMy OwnRoomsSuccessfulTeachingHavensSticksFingersPrisonerExposedClothingsPlatesElderlyDark RoomFaustBastille Author:Bret Harte