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 LEE
Things are always better in the morning.
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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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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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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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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 are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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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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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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