A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
HARPER LEEThings are never as bad as they seem.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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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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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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