You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEEThere are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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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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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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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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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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You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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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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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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