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 think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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