Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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