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.
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 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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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 always better in the morning.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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