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.
HARPER LEE
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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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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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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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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