Where does the quote "Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated" come from?

Question

Where does the quote "Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated" come from?

Answer 1

The quote (and many variations of it) "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated" is said to be based on Mark Twain's response to a premature obituary about his own death. There are interesting accounts of how his words may have been altered throughout the years, including the following found on snopes.com:



' "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." (Actually, in 1897, when reports of the illness of James Ross Clemens, a cousin, were somehow misconstrued to mean that Twain himself was lying at death's door in London, he cleared up matters by telling the reporter who'd stopped by to check on him that "The report of my death was an exaggeration." The 'greatly' was added by Twain himself years after the fact in preparing an account of this incident. In his first draft he has himself directing the reporter to "Say the report is exaggerated," but in a later draft he scribbled "greatly" in front of "exaggerated." And there was never a wire sent to a London paper, as the anecdote now has it.) '

Answer 2

Channeling Patton is a gorgeous gambit. Patton became seen a brilliant strategist, yet a awful baby-kisser. (And regrettably, politics became in the protection rigidity gone to now or then.) extremely of aping a guy of the previous, why no longer arise with some thing for the the following and now?

Answer 3

I think it was said by Mark Twain