I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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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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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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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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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