Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
HARPER LEEUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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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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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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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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