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.
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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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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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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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