Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEEThere’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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’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.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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