A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
HARPER LEEWriting 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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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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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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