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 LEECharacters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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 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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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 think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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