There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
HARPER LEE
I’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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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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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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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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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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