You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEEI do my best to love everybody.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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