I Asked ChatGPT To Write 5 Quotes In The Style of Mark Twain: Holy Shit

Matt Ryan Allen
4 min readFeb 28, 2023

Okay, below is my unedited conversation with ChatGPT.

ME: Do you know who Mark Twain is?

CHATGPT: Yes, I do know who Mark Twain is! Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer, humorist, and entrepreneur. He was born on November 30, 1835, and died on April 21, 1910. Twain is best known for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” both of which are considered American literary classics. He also wrote many other novels, short stories, and essays, and was known for his wit and satirical writing style. Twain’s works are still widely read and celebrated today.

ME: Are you familiar with some of his famous quotes?

CHATGPT: Yes, Mark Twain is known for many famous quotes. Here are a few examples:

  1. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
  2. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
  3. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
  4. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
  5. “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — ’tis the…

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Matt Ryan Allen

Matt R. Allen is a screenwriter, producer and amateur futurist living in Los Angeles. He's best known for the comedies, Four Christmases and Block Party..