The Atlantic, May 3, 2011: " Mark Twain Didn’t Say That Thing About Obituaries".18: " Did Mark Twain Say ‘I Have Read Some Obituaries With Great Pleasure’?" 17: "Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio titan, dies of lung cancer at age 70" A similar version of the quote actually came from attorney Clarence Darrow, who first said it more than a decade after Twain’s death. The quote “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure” attributed to Mark Twain is FALSE. That version of the quote is closer to the one wrongly attributed to Twain. That speech was more than a decade after Twain’s death in 1910.ĭarrow later refined the quote to a shorter version that Quote Investigator found he used during congressional testimony and in his 1932 memoir, in which he wrote “I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.” I could mention the names of many that it would please me if I could read their obituaries in the paper in the morning,” Darrow said in a 1922 speech before the Illinois Conference on Public Welfare, according to Quote Investigator. I have had a great deal of satisfaction over many obituary notices that I have read. I never killed anybody, but I have done just the same thing.
“One reason why we don’t kill is because we are not used to it. On several occasions, Darrow referred back to a version of the obituary quote, the earliest instance coming in a 1922 speech, according to Quote Investigator, a website run by “Hemingway Didn’t Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations” author Garson O’Toole.
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