Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
HARPER LEEBad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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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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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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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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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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