People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
HARPER LEEIt was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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