Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
HARPER LEEYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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