But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
HARPER LEE
I 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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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 rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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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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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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