Joel Chandler Harris famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
-- Joel Chandler Harris

#Luck #Watches #Want
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
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
When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.
-- Joel Chandler Harris

#Specks #Folks
Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.
-- Joel Chandler Harris

#Roosters #Fine
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.
-- Joel Chandler Harris

#Jugs #Loud
Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!
-- Joel Chandler Harris

#Patches #Please #Briars
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 #People
Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.
-- Joel Chandler Harris

#Bird
Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.
-- Joel Chandler Harris

#Tired #Lazy
I am in the prime of my senility.
-- Joel Chandler Harris

#Prime

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