Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEESome 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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.
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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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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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