People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEEThe 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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