You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEEYou can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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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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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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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