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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.

Harper Lee

Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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Better Earth Equality Growth Harm Important Myself Poor Rich Thinking Truth Yourself
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
HARPER LEE

Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
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.
HARPER LEE

Education Learning Writing Yourself
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
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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Acknowledgement Choice Family Friendship Right Yourself
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
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.
HARPER LEE

Bad Hurt Insult Name Person Poor Thinking Yourself
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.
HARPER LEE

Book Equality Reading Religious Thinking
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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Believe Court Health Ideal Integrity Live Work
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Breathe Fear Lose Love Myself Oneself Reading
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth Writing
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
HARPER LEE

Alive Book Cooperation Fake Myself Rest

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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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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