There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
HARPER LEELadies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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