There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
HARPER LEEBut sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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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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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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