I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
HARPER LEEI would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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