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 LEEWriting 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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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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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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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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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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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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