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.
HARPER LEECharacters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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