Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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