Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEEYou can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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The 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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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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