Writing 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.
HARPER LEEI do my best to love everybody.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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