A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
HARPER LEEI 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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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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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in 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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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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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