Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

He closed his grade book and asked hopefully, "What inspired you? Was it Hawthorne?"  I stared at him. He had to be kidding.

I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape.

That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction.

Written By Ayn Rand

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