People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
HARPER LEEThe 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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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