Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
HARPER LEEBad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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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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