Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEEThings are never as bad as they seem.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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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 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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Things are always better in the morning.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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