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.
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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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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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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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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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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