You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEEI do my best to love everybody.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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My 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.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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.
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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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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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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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