But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
HARPER LEEYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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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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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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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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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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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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