People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEEWriting 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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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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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 in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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