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.
HARPER LEEIt’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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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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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 do my best to love everybody.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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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.
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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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