Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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