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 LEEWriting 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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