We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
HARPER LEEWith him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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 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.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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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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As 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.
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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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 do my best to love everybody.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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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