People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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Some 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.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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