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.
HARPER LEEThings are always better in the morning.
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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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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 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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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