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.
HARPER LEEWe’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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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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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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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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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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