Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
HARPER LEEAre you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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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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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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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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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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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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