Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
HARPER LEEIt’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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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