Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
HARPER LEEBad 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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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 wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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