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.
HARPER LEEMy 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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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.
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know 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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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