But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
HARPER LEEI’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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