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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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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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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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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 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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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 think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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