I do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEEYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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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’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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