Joel Chandler Harris quotes
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“Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.”
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“Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.”
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“Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.”
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“I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.”
-- Joel Chandler HarrisSource : Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Chase (1983). “The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.”
-- Joel Chandler HarrisSource : 'Nights with Uncle Remus' (1883) ch. 23
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“Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.”
-- Joel Chandler HarrisSource : 'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' (1880) 'Plantation Proverbs'
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“Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.”
-- Joel Chandler HarrisSource : 'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' (1880) 'Plantation Proverbs'
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“Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!”
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“People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.”
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“Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.”
-- Joel Chandler HarrisSource : Joel Chandler Harris (2016). “Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings”, p.116, Library of Alexandria
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“Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.”
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