Things are always better in the morning.
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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It 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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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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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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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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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 never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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