Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
HARPER LEEWe’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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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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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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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 place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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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’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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 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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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