I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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