People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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.
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You 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.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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