You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEEServing 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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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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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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