My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
HARPER LEEThe 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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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 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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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