Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
HARPER LEEAre you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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