Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEELadies pick funny things to be proud of.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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’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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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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