Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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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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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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