It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
HARPER LEEBut before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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