With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEEA man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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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.
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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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