Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
HARPER LEERest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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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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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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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