Joel Chandler Harris Quotes

• Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Writing, Self, Paper

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• Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Luck, Watches, Want

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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 Harris

  Foxes, Patches, Fling

  Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Chase (1983). “The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am in the prime of my senility.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Prime, Senility

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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.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Writing, Long Ago, People

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• Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Jugs, Loud

  'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' (1880) 'Plantation Proverbs'

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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.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Patches, Please, Briars

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• When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Specks, Folks

  'Nights with Uncle Remus' (1883) ch. 23

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• Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Roosters, Fine

  'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' (1880) 'Plantation Proverbs'

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• Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Tired, Lazy

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• Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Bird

  Joel Chandler Harris (2016). “Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings”, p.116, Library of Alexandria

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