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.
HARPER LEEIt was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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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’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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’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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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