You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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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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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 can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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