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.
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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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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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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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