The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
HARPER LEESome 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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