I do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEEWriting 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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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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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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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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