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.
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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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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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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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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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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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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