Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
HARPER LEEAs you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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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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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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