Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEEYou can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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Writing 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 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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